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Key facts
- Type
- Fighter aircraft
- Manufacturer
- Yakovlev OKB
- Primary user
- Soviet Air Force
- Number built
- 8,700
- Manufactured
- 1940–1944
- First flight
- 13 January 1940
- Variants
- Yakovlev Yak-3 , Yakovlev Yak-7
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Operator
- Soviet Air Forces
- Developer
- Yakovlev
- Manufacturer
- NPO Lavochkin
- Designed by
- Alexandr Yakovlev
- Image
- I-26.jpg
- Length
- 8.48
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- Commons category
- Yakovlev Yak-1
- first flight
- 1940-01-13
- total produced
- 8734
- service retirement
- 1950-00-00
- wingspan
- 10.00
- maximum operating altitude
- 10000
- powered by
- Klimov M-105
- vehicle range
- 650
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Encyclopedic overview
The Yakovlev Yak-1 (Russian: Яковлев Як-1) was a Soviet fighter aircraft of World War II. The Yak-1 was a single-seat monoplane with a composite structure and wooden wings; production began in early 1940.
The Yak-1 was a maneuverable, fast and competitive fighter aircraft. The composite-wooden structure made it easy to maintain and the engine proved to be reliable. It formed the basis for subsequent developments from the Yakovlev bureau and was the founder of a family of aircraft, with some 43,000 being built. As a reward, designer Alexander Yakovlev was awarded the Order of Lenin (Russian: Орден Ленина, Orden Lenina) (the highest civilian decoration bestowed by the Soviet Union), a 100,000 ruble prize, and a ZIS motor car.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yakovlev Yak-1” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.