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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.

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