Design and Development
Part of a new generation of acrobatic aircraft from the Yakovlev design bureau who have a long line of aircraft designs started in 1937 with UT-2/AIR-10. It is a development of the single-seat Yak-55M, designed by Chief Constructor Dmitry Drach and Lead Engineer Vladimir Popov it first flew 23 December 1993.
It was produced by Saratov Aviation Facility in cooperation with JSV "Gorky U-2" up to 2005, when the production moved to the Arsenyev Aviation Company "Progress" facility in Arsenyev.
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