Yakovlev
Template:Short description Template:About Template:Infobox company The JSC A.S. Yakovlev Design Bureau<ref>A.S.Yakovlev Design Bureau - General Data</ref><ref>UAC - General information</ref> (Template:IPAc-en; Template:Langx) is a Russian aircraft designer and manufacturer (design office prefix Yak). Its head office is in Aeroport District, Northern Administrative Okrug, Moscow.<ref>Home page. Yakovlev. Retrieved on 30 August 2011. "125315 Russia, Moscow, Leningradskiy prospect, 68" Address in Russian: "125315 Россия, Москва, Ленинградский проспект, 68"</ref> It is a subsidiary of Yakovlev Corporation.
Overview
The bureau formed in 1934 under aircraft designer Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev as OKB-115 (the design bureau has its own production base at the facility No.115), but dates its birth from 12 May 1927, the day of maiden flight of the AIR-1 aircraft developed withinTemplate:Citation needed 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.
Irkut acquired Yakovlev in April 2004.<ref>Irkut Corporation Completes Yakovlev Design Bureau Acquisition Template:Webarchive. defense-aerospace.com, April 22, 2004.</ref> The Russian government merged the holding company with Mikoyan, Ilyushin, Irkut, Sukhoi and Tupolev as a new company named United Aircraft Building Corporation in February 2006.<ref name="nyt_united_aircraft">" Russian Aircraft Industry Seeks Revival Through Merger." The New York Times. February 22, 2006. </ref>
The firm designed the Pchela (Template:Langx, "bee") drone reconnaissance aircraft (first flown in 1990), but is perhaps best known for its highly successful line of World War II-era piston-engined fighter-aircraft.
In August 2023, Irkut Corporation rebranded itself as Yakovlev. The Sukhoi Superjet 100 was redesignated as the SJ-100, and the Irkut MC-21 also adopted the Yakovlev name.<ref name="IrkutYakovlev">Template:Cite news</ref>
- Sanctions
The company was sanctioned by the Canadian government on 22 August 2023.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
See also
- List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS
- List of Yakovlev aircraft
- SOKOL Aircraft Building Plant
References
- A book by A.T.Stepanets. Yak Fighters in WWII Template:ISBN (in Russian)
- Степанец А.Т.- Истребители "Як" периода Великой Отечественной войны. Справочник. - М.: Машиностроение, 1992. - 224 с.: ил:
External links
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