Key facts
- Type
- Fighter aircraft
- National origin
- Soviet Union
- Manufacturer
- Lavochkin
- Designer
- Semyon Lavochkin
- Primary user
- Soviet Air Force
- Number built
- 9,920
- Introduction date
- July 1942
- First flight
- March 1942
- Developed from
- LaGG-3
- Developed into
- Lavochkin La-7
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Operator
- Soviet Air Forces
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Based on
- Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3
- Developer
- NPO Lavochkin
- Manufacturer
- NPO Lavochkin
- Designed by
- Semyon Lavochkin
- Image
- UMMC Museum Complex 365.jpg
- Length
- 8.67
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- first flight
- 1942-03-00
- Commons category
- Lavochkin La-5
- total produced
- 9920
- service entry
- 1942-00-00
- wingspan
- 9.80
- maximum operating altitude
- 9500
- cruise speed
- 560
- vehicle range
- 760
- wing area
- 17.51
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Encyclopedic overview
The Lavochkin La-5 (Лавочкин Ла-5) was a Soviet fighter aircraft of World War II. It was a development and refinement of the LaGG-3, replacing the earlier model's inline engine with the much more powerful Shvetsov ASh-82 radial engine. During its time in service, it was one of the Soviet Air Force's most capable types of warplane, able to fight German designs on almost equal footing.
Development
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lavochkin La-5” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.