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  company Name AS Yakovlev Design Bureau JSC
  company Type Joint stock company
  foundation 1934
  key People Alexander Sergeevich Yakovlev
  industry Aerospace and Defense
  products Military aircraft
  homepage Yakolev


A.S. Yakovlev Design Bureau JSC is a Russian aircraft designer and manufacturer (design office prefix '''Yak'''). It was formed in 1934 under designer Alexander Sergeevich Yakovlev as ''' OKB -115''' (the design bureau has its own production base at the facility №115), but the birthday is considered on 12 May 1927, the day of maiden flight of the '''AIR-1''' aircraft developed within the Department of Light Aircraft of GUAP (Head Agency of Aviation Industry) under the supervision of A.S. Yakovlev.

During World War II Yakovlev designed and produced a famed line of fighter aircraft.

It was merged into the Yak Aviation Company with .'' February 22 , 2006 .

The firm is the designer of the Pchela (, "bee", drone reconnaissance aircraft), and is perhaps best known for its highly successful line of World War II-era piston-engined fighter aircraft.

The name "Yakovlev" is used commonly in the West, but in Russia it is always abbreviated as Yak ( Russian Language : Як) as a part of aircraft name. The German transliteration, often used by the Russians, Poles, and others as well, is '''Jak'''.

''See also:'' SOKOL Aircraft Building Plant


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