Yakovlev Yak-54

{{Short description|Soviet aerobatic aircraft}}

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|type= Two-seat aerobatic monoplane

|national_origin= Russia

|manufacturer= Yakolev Aircraft Corporation / Arsenyev Aviation Company

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|first_flight= 24 December 1993

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The Yakovlev Yak-54 is a 1990s Russian aerobatic and sports competition aircraft designed by the Yakovlev Aircraft Corporation.

Design and development

Part of a new generation of acrobatic aircraft from the Yakovlev design bureau which has a long line of aircraft designs since 1937 with the UT-2/AIR-10, the Yak-54 is a development of the single-seat Yak-55M, designed by Chief Constructor Dmitry Drach and Lead Engineer Vladimir Popov.{{cite web |url=http://www.airwar.ru/enc/other/yak54.html |script-title=ru:Яковлев Як-54 |access-date=2007-11-26 |language=ru }} It first flew 23 December 1993.

It was produced by Saratov Aviation Facility in cooperation with JSV "Gorky U-2" up to 2005, when the production moved to the Arsenyev Aviation Company "Progress" facility in Arsenyev.

Specifications (Yak-54)

File:Yakovlev Yak-54 3-view line drawing.svg

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See also

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