02213 Yakovlev Yak-18 Max - Trumpeter  [TP02213]

Component from the 2nd generation of Russian aircraft designers and best recognized for fighter designs, Aleksandr S. Yakovlev constantly retained a light aircraft design area. In-may, 1945 Yakovlev initiated the style the Yak-18 two-seat main trainer. He designed it to alter the sooner Yakovlev UT-2 and Yak-5 working as a consequence of Soviet Air Force and DOSAAF(Voluntary community for Collaboration combined with Army, Air Force and Navy, which sponsored aero groups through the whole USSR). The present day aircraft travelled yearly later operating on a Shvetsov M-11 five-cylinder radial engine and featuring a retractable tailwheel landing gear. The look proved exceptionally quite simple to create and keep and yes it continues in production today, 55 years afterwards, in 2 of its many variants: the four-seat Yak-18T along with two-seat Yak-54. The Yak-18 became the typical trainer for Air Force traveling schools and DOSAAF, and it is currently in wide utilized in Asia plus a number of other nations.

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