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. It is a subsidiary of

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The bureau formed in 1934 under aircraft designer

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as OKB-115 (the design bureau has its own production base at the facility No.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 (Head Agency of Aviation Industry) under the supervision of A.S. Yakovlev. During

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Yakovlev designed and produced a famed line of

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. Irkut acquired Yakovlev in April 2004. The Russian government merged the holding company with

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, Irkut,

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and

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as a new company named

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in February 2006.
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.'' February 22, 2006. The firm designed the ''Pchela'' (, "bee") drone reconnaissance aircraft (first flown in 1990), but is perhaps best known for its highly successful line of World War II-era piston-engined fighter-aircraft. In August 2023,

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rebranded itself as Yakovlev. The

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was redesignated as the SJ-100, and the

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also adopted the Yakovlev name. ; Sanctions The company was sanctioned by the Canadian government on 22 August 2023.

References

* A book by A.T.Stepanets. ''Yak Fighters in WWII'' (in Russian) * Степанец А.Т.- Истребители "Як" периода Великой Отечественной войны. Справочник. - М.: Машиностроение, 1992. - 224 с.: ил:

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