HISTORY
The
bureau was formed in 1934
under designer Alexander
Sergeyevich Yakovlev as
OKB-115 (the design bureau
has its own production base
at the facility №115), but
the birthday is considered
on 12 May 1927, the day of
maiden flight of the AIR-1
aircraft developed within
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.
It was merged into the Yak
Aviation Company with
Smolensk Aviation Plant
Joint Stock Company in March
1992, although the two
companies continued to be
operated separately. It
later underwent
privatization and became Yak
Aircraft Corporation. The
Russian government is
planning to merge the
holding company with
Mikoyan, Ilyushin, Irkut,
Sukhoi and Tupolev as a new
company named United
Aircraft Building
Corporation.
The firm is the designer of
the
Pchela
(Russian:
Пчела,
"bee") drone reconnaissance
aircraft and is perhaps best
known for its highly
successful line of World War
II-era piston-engined
fighter aircraft.
The name
Yakovlev
is used commonly in the
West, but in Russia it is
always abbreviated as
Yak
(Russian:
Як)
as a part of an aircraft
name. The German
transliteration, often used
by the Russians, Poles, and
others as well, is
Jak.
Source:
Wikipedia
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