Aircraft
Yak Answers Russia’s Call for Trainer
Yakovlev’s latest generation of trainer is being procured to provide elementary training for the Russian forces
Adopting a V-12 engine has given Yak’s trainer family a new look.
Adopting a V-12 engine has given Yak’s trainer family a new look.

Throughout the early Cold War era, most Eastern bloc pilots took their first training flights in the classic Yakovlev Yak-18 trainer. From the mid-1970s the all-metal Yak-52 entered service to provide elementary training, and is still in limited use today with DOSAAF, Russia’s military-affiliated aero club organization. Now the Russian air force is procuring a new generation of Yak trainers to provide new equipment for DOSAAF.


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