Trumpeter 02213 Yakovlev Yak-18 Max  [TP02213]

A part associated with the 2nd generation of Russian aircraft developers and greatest known for fighter designs, Aleksandr S. Yakovlev constantly retained a light aircraft design area. In-may, 1945 Yakovlev initiated the style for the Yak-18 two-seat primary trainer. He designed it to change the sooner Yakovlev UT-2 and Yak-5 in service because of the Soviet Air Force and DOSAAF(Voluntary community for Collaboration aided by the Army, Air Force and Navy, which sponsored aero clubs through the entire USSR). The new aircraft flew a year later powered by a Shvetsov M-11 five-cylinder radial engine and featuring a retractable tailwheel landing gear. The design proved extremely very easy to build and continue maintaining plus it continues in production today, 55 years later on, in two of its many variants: the four-seat Yak-18T as well as the two-seat Yak-54. The Yak-18 became the typical trainer for Air Force traveling schools and DOSAAF, and it is presently in wide use in China plus many other countries.

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