Yakovlev Yak-54

The Yakovlev Yak-54 is a 1990s Russian aerobatic and sports competition aircraft designed by the Yakovlev Aircraft Corporation. It belongs to a new generation of acrobatic aircraft from the Yakovlev bureau, which has designed aircraft since 1937 and the UT-2 and AIR-10, and it is a development of the single-seat Yak-55M, designed by Chief Constructor Dmitry Drach and Lead Engineer Vladimir Popov. It first flew on 23 December 1993. The Yak-54 is powered by a single M-14P nine-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine of 360 hp and can fly as a two-seater at 990 kg or in single-seat operation at 850 kg. It was produced by the Saratov Aviation Facility with JSV Gorky U-2 up to 2005, when production moved to the Arsenyev Aviation Company Progress.