The JSC A.S. Yakovlev Design Bureau is a Russian aircraft designer and manufacturer (design office prefix Yak). Its head office is in Aeroport District, Northern Administrative Okrug, Moscow. 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 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.
Irkut acquired Yakovlev in April 2004.4 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 2006.5
The firm designed the Pchela (Russian: Пчела, "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.6
SanctionsThe company was sanctioned by the Canadian government on 22 August 2023.7
See also
- Russia portal
- Aviation portal
- List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS
- List of Yakovlev aircraft
- SOKOL Aircraft Building Plant
- A book by A.T.Stepanets. Yak Fighters in WWII ISBN 5-217-01192-0 (in Russian)
- Степанец А.Т.- Истребители "Як" периода Великой Отечественной войны. Справочник. - М.: Машиностроение, 1992. - 224 с.: ил:
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Yakovlev.References
A.S.Yakovlev Design Bureau - General Data http://www.yak.ru/ENG/FIRM/today0.php ↩
UAC - General information http://www.uacrussia.ru/en/investors/ ↩
Home page. Yakovlev. Retrieved on 30 August 2011. "125315 Russia, Moscow, Leningradskiy prospect, 68" Address in Russian: "125315 Россия, Москва, Ленинградский проспект, 68" http://www.yak.ru/ENG/ ↩
Irkut Corporation Completes Yakovlev Design Bureau Acquisition Archived 2020-11-27 at the Wayback Machine. defense-aerospace.com, April 22, 2004. http://www.defense-aerospace.com/article-view/release/37645/russia%E2%80%99s-irkut-buys-yakovlev-bureau-%28apr.-23%29.html ↩
" Russian Aircraft Industry Seeks Revival Through Merger." The New York Times. February 22, 2006. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/22/business/worldbusiness/22air.html?_r=1&oref=login ↩
Kaminski-Morrow, David (16 August 2023). "Yakovlev name formally approved as Irkut's new corporate identity". Flight Global. https://www.flightglobal.com/aerospace/yakovlev-name-formally-approved-as-irkuts-new-corporate-identity/154573.article ↩
"Russian entities from the military-industrial, financial and nuclear sectors Country: Russia". 23 August 2023. https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/issues_development-enjeux_developpement/response_conflict-reponse_conflits/crisis-crises/ukraine-sanctions.aspx?lang=eng ↩