The 1960 Yakovlev Yak-30, NATO reporting name Magnum and originally designated Yakovlev 104, was the bureau's entry in a competition for the first military jet trainer for Warsaw Pact nations, meant to succeed the Yak-17UTI. It also led to the single-seat Yak-32 sport jet. Factory testing ran from 20 May 1960 to March 1961 with 82 flights, and pilot Smirnov set world light jet records including 767.308 km/h over a 25 kilometre course and an altitude of 16,128 metres. It beat the Polish TS-11 Iskra but lost to the Czechoslovak L-29 Delfin in a political decision in 1961, and it did not enter production.
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One of the surviving prototypes is on display at the Central Air Force Museum
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