Yakovlev
The JSC A.S. Yakovlev Design Bureau is a Russian aircraft designer and manufacturer. Its head office is in Aeroport District, Northern Administrative Okrug, Moscow.Overview
The bureau formed in 1934 under designer Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev as OKB-115, but dates its birth from 12 May 1927, the day of maiden flight of the AIR-1 aircraft developed within the Department of Light Aircraft of GUAP under the supervision of A.S. Yakovlev.
During World War II Yakovlev designed and produced a famed line of fighter aircraft.
Irkut acquired Yakovlev in April 2004. The Russian government merged the holding company with Mikoyan, Ilyushin, Irkut, Sukhoi and Tupolev as a new company named United Aircraft Building Corporation in February 2006.
The firm designed the Pchela drone reconnaissance aircraft, but is perhaps best known for its highly successful line of World War II-era piston-engined fighter-aircraft.
