Russia’s Yakovlev aims to start flight trials of its Yak-130M light combat jet in the first half of 2025, the CEO of the company’s Irkutsk aviation facility told journalists at the Army 2024 ...

Russian aircraft manufacturer Ural Works for Civil Aviation (UWCA) has conducted the first flight trials of its new VK-800 ...

Siberian aerospace research institute SibNIA has carried out the first test flight of a Yakovlev Yak-40 fitted with the UZGA ...

A participant stands on the wing of a Yak-52 aircraft at an airshow in Ede, Netherlands, on August 21, 2019. Russia said Tuesday that it destroyed a Ukrainian Yakovlev Yak-52 aircraft.

Researchers have commenced flight-testing with a Yakovlev Yak-40 modified with a superconducting electric engine mounted in the nose. The aircraft is fitted with a motor, developed by materials ...

Yakovlev went on to produce the Yak-130, retaining the rights (as per the original agreement with Aermacchi) to sell it to Russia-friendly states like India and Algeria.

This 1986 Yak-52 has 1,207 hours on the airframe, 72 hours since overhaul on its 360 hp Vendeneyev M-14P Series 2 engine, and 72 hours on its Whirlwind carbon fiber W-530 propeller.

Explore the history of the Yakovlev Yak-25, a Cold War-era Soviet interceptor that first flew on June 19, 1952, and played a key role in long-range air defense.

Though period-correct Yak-9 examples sported Soviet Klimov piston engines, this recreation has the benefit of much better supported American hardware in the form of an Allison V-1710 V12 engine ...