Yakovlev
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The Russian aircraft designer and manufacturer (design office prefix Yak). Its head office is in Aeroport District, Northern Administrative Okrug, Moscow.[3]
Overview
The bureau formed in 1934 under aircraft designer
Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev as OKB-115 (the design bureau has its own production base at the facility No.115), but dates its birth from 12 May 1927, the day of maiden flight of the AIR-1 aircraft developed within[citation needed
] the Department of Light Aircraft of GUAP (Head Agency of Aviation Industry) under the supervision of A.S. Yakovlev.
During World War II Yakovlev designed and produced a famed line of fighter aircraft.
United Aircraft Building Corporation in February 2006.[5]
The firm designed the
drone reconnaissance aircraft
(first flown in 1990), but is perhaps best known for its highly successful line of World War II-era piston-engined fighter-aircraft.
In August 2023,
Irkut MC-21 also adopted the Yakovlev name.[6]
- Sanctions
The company was sanctioned by the Canadian government on 22 August 2023.[7]
See also
- List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS
- List of Yakovlev aircraft
- SOKOL Aircraft Building Plant
References
- ^ A.S.Yakovlev Design Bureau - General Data
- ^ UAC - General information
- ^ Home page. Yakovlev. Retrieved on 30 August 2011. "125315 Russia, Moscow, Leningradskiy prospect, 68" Address in Russian: "125315 Россия, Москва, Ленинградский проспект, 68"
- ^ Irkut Corporation Completes Yakovlev Design Bureau Acquisition Archived 2020-11-27 at the Wayback Machine. defense-aerospace.com, April 22, 2004.
- ^ " Russian Aircraft Industry Seeks Revival Through Merger." The New York Times. February 22, 2006.
- ^ Kaminski-Morrow, David (16 August 2023). "Yakovlev name formally approved as Irkut's new corporate identity". Flight Global.
- ^ "Russian entities from the military-industrial, financial and nuclear sectors Country: Russia". 23 August 2023.
- A book by A.T.Stepanets. Yak Fighters in WWII ISBN 5-217-01192-0(in Russian)
- Степанец А.Т.- Истребители "Як" периода Великой Отечественной войны. Справочник. - М.: Машиностроение, 1992. - 224 с.: ил:
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