APD-520 piston aircraft engine / Photo © Ladislav Karpov, TASS In the summer of 2025, S7 Group plans to undertake a series of tests on its new APD-520 “Leader” piston […]
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Category: Trainer aircraft
On 25 April 1996, the Yak-130 made its first flight
Yak-130 First Flight, 1996. / Photo by © Vladimir Yatsina, TASS The Yak-130 twin-seat advanced jet trainer provides basic and advanced pilot training for modern and future combat aircraft, including […]
IDEX 2025: Russia to Unveil UTS-800 Aircraft Abroad for the First Time
Image by © UZGA press service At the International Defence Exhibition (IDEX) 2025, held in Abu Dhabi from 17th to 21st February, the Ural Works of Civil Aviation (UWCA or […]
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Yak-130M Prototypes Continue to Take Shape in Irkutsk
Image by © UAC Press Service Production of the Yak-130M, an advanced jet trainer and light attack aircraft, is ongoing at the Irkutsk Aviation Plant, with assembly of three prototype […]
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UEC Plans to Expand Cooperation with India and Proposes Licensed Production of AL-55E Engines
Photo by © UEC The United Engine Corporation (UEC) plans to expand its cooperation with the Indian corporation Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) in the field of aircraft engine production. This […]
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UZGA has handed over two serial UTS-800 trainer aircraft to the Ministry of Defence for flight testing
The first two production machines “06” and “07” “red” and prototype UTS-800 “01 red” / Photo by © UAC press service The Ural Civil Aviation Plant (UZGA) has transferred two […]
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The future of the Yak-152 depends on the VK-650V engine
Photo by © UAC PJSC Yakovlev continues to work on the Yak-152 light trainer aircraft project, designed for the initial training of pilots of the Russian Air and Space Forces. […]
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PJSC Yakovlev designs trainer aircraft for civil aviation
Yak-18T, illustration / Photo by © Dmitry Aksyonov, russianplanes.net Engineers of the Alexander Yakovlev Experimental Design Bureau have started designing a new trainer aircraft (UTS) for training civil aviation pilots. […]
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About the first flight of the UTS-800 airplane
Photo by © UZGA press service In the fall of 2023 at the Aramil airfield in the Sverdlovsk region, the Ural Civil Aviation Plant’s (UZGA) UTS-800 trainer aircraft made its […]
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State testing of the Yak-152 aircraft has been completed. Engine import substitution is next in line
Photo by © UAC The Yak-152 light trainer aircraft for initial training of Russian Air Force pilots has passed factory and flight design tests, and in December 2023 successfully completed […]
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