Yakovlev Yak-12

The Yakovlev Yak-12, with the NATO reporting name Creek, is a light multirole STOL aircraft that served the Soviet Air Forces, Soviet civil aviation and other countries from 1947 onwards. Alexander Yakovlev designed it to meet a 1944 Soviet Air Force requirement for a liaison and utility aircraft to replace the obsolete Po-2 biplane, and it was also meant to serve civil aviation. The first proposal, a four-seat high-wing aircraft called the Yak-10, was replaced in 1947 by a new design with a more powerful 160 hp engine, a new wing and undercarriage and a lower tail, which became the Yak-12. It flew as an observation plane, air ambulance, agricultural aircraft and glider tug. Poland and China built it under licence, and the Polish line led to the PZL-101 Gawron.