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The Yak-52 was a tandem
two-seat piston-engined primery trainer, designed by Yakovlev in the
USSR in 1978 to replace the Yak-18, the standard ab initio trainer for
Soviet pilots since the mid-1940s. Although the prototype was
manufactured and test-flown at the Yakovlev factory in 1979, production
was entrusted to the Romanian aircraft industrie under the Comecon (Council
for Mutual Economic Assistance) programme.
Over 1,800 aircraft were produced in Bacau, Romania by IAv Bacau (Intreprinderea
de Avioane Bacau); the company was renamed Aerostar SA in 1991. Aircraft
that became surplus to the military services have been spread all over
the world.
More will follow......
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