Aircraft
Yak-130 Leads Irkut Regional Thrust
Later this year the Irkut Corp. will deliver the first Yak-130 advanced trainers to the Algerian air force.
Irkut CEO Alexei Fedorov
Irkut CEO Alexei Fedorov

Later this year the Irkut Corp. will deliver the first Yak-130 advanced trainers to the Algerian air force. The North African air arm already has personnel training on the type at the company’s Irkutsk facility in Siberia, where Algerian pilots undertook their first solo flights in September.

Irkut sees the Middle East/North Africa as a key market for the type. One nation that already signed up is Libya, which ordered six, but the contract is currently frozen in the wake of the recent conflict in the North African country and the aircraft could be reallocated.