Key facts
- Type
- Fighter
- Manufacturer
- Yakovlev
- Primary user
- Soviet Air Force
- Manufactured
- 1946–47
- First flight
- 24 April 1946
- Developed from
- Yakovlev Yak-3
- Developed into
- Yakovlev Yak-17
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Wikidata facts
- Operator
- Soviet Air Forces
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Based on
- Yakovlev Yak-3
- Manufacturer
- Yakovlev
- Image
- Yakovlev Yak-15 3-view line drawing.svg
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- first flight
- 1946-04-24
- service entry
- 1947-00-00
- total produced
- 280
- Commons category
- Yakovlev Yak-15
- NATO reporting name
- Magnet
- powered by
- Junkers Jumo 004
- armament
- Nudelman-Suranov NS-23
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Encyclopedic overview
The Yakovlev Yak-15 (Russian: Яковлев Як-15; NATO reporting name: Feather, USAF/DOD designation Type 2) is a first-generation Soviet turbojet fighter developed by the Yakovlev design bureau (OKB) immediately after World War II. The main fuselage was that of Yakovlev Yak-3 piston-engine fighter modified to mount a reverse-engineered German Junkers Jumo 004 engine. The Yak-15 and the Swedish Saab 21R were the only two jets to be successfully converted from piston-power to enter production. 280 aircraft were built in 1947. Although nominally a fighter, it was mainly used to qualify piston-engine-experienced pilots to fly jets.
Design
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yakovlev Yak-15” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.