Key facts
- Type
- Fighter
- National origin
- Soviet Union
- Designer
- S.A. Lavochkin Design Bureau
- Built by
- Plant No.21 ( Gorky ), Plant No.381 ( Moscow ), Plant No.99 ( Ulan-Ude )
- Status
- Retired
- Primary users
- Soviet Air Forces Czechoslovak Air Force
- Number built
- 5,753 (+ 582 trainers)
- Manufactured
- May 1944 - August 1946
- Introduction date
- June 1944
- First flight
- 1 February 1944 (La-5 mod. 1944)
- Retired
- 1952 ( Soviet Air Forces )
- Developed from
- Lavochkin La-5
- Developed into
- Lavochkin La-126
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- fighter aircraft
- Operator
- Czechoslovak Air Force
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Based on
- Lavochkin La-5
- Manufacturer
- Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant
- Designed by
- Semyon Lavochkin
- Image
- Lavochkin La-7 ’27 white’ (25168790698).jpg
- Height
- 2.54
- Length
- 8.60
- Has use
- fighter aircraft
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- Commons category
- Lavochkin La-7
- powered by
- ASh-82
- armament
- unguided bomb
- NATO reporting name
- Fin
- first flight
- 1944-02-00
- service retirement
- 1950-00-00
- total produced
- 5905
- wingspan
- 9.80
- maximum operating altitude
- 10750
- cruise speed
- 597
- vehicle range
- 635
- wing area
- 17.5
- service entry
- 1944-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
The Lavochkin La-7 (Russian: Лавочкин Ла-7; NATO reporting name: Fin) is a piston-engined single-seat Soviet fighter aircraft developed during World War II by the Lavochkin Design Bureau. It was a development and refinement of the Lavochkin La-5, and the last in a family of aircraft that had begun with the LaGG-1 in 1938. Its first flight was in early 1944 and it entered service with the Soviet Air Forces later in the year. A small batch of La-7s was given to the Czechoslovak Air Force the following year, but otherwise it was not exported. Armed with two or three 20 mm (0.8 in) cannon, it had a top speed of 661 kilometers per hour (411 mph). The La-7 was felt by its pilots to be at least the equal of any German piston-engined fighter. It was phased out in 1947 by the Soviet Air Force, but served until 1950 with the Czechoslovak Air Force.
Design and development
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lavochkin La-7” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.