Yakovlev Yak-10
# Yakovlev Yak-10

The Yakovlev Yak-10 (Russian: Яковлев Як-10) was a Soviet light liaison aircraft designed and built by the Yakovlev design bureau in the 1940s.

## Design and development

In the late 1940s the Soviet forces had a need for a light liaison aircraft that was smaller than the Antonov An-2. The company derived two four-seat aircraft with wooden wings and metal fuselages, from the earlier AIR-6. The Yak-10, a high-wing strut-braced monoplane with fixed landing gear and the Yak-13 a low-wing cantilever monoplane with a manually retractable landing gear. Both aircraft were powered by a 145 hp M-11MF radial engine. After tests in 1945, the Yak-10 was awarded a production contract for 40 aircraft, despite unimpressive performance. The company built a number of different variants but soon produced an improved design, the Yak-12, which, although of similar layout, was not a derivative of the Yak-10.

The Yak-10 only entered limited production before it was replaced by the superior Yakovlev Yak-12, and although the Yak-13 proved to be superior to the original Yak-10, production was not carried out.

## Variants

### Yak-10

    Strut-braced high-wing monoplane powered by a Shvetsov M-11MF radial engine.

### Yak-10G

    Floatplane variant with twin floats.

### Yak-10S

    Ambulance variant with room for one stretcher.

### Yak-10V

    Dual control.

### Yak-13

    Low-wing monoplane derivative, using an almost identical fuselage and Shvetsov M-11MF engine installation, with a cantilevered wooden low wing for direct comparison with the Yak-10. One built.

## Specifications (Yak-10)

Data fromThe Osprey Encyclopaedia of Russian Aircraft 1875 – 1995

General characteristics

* Crew: one
* Capacity: three passengers
* Length: 8.45 m (27 ft 8.63 in)
* Wingspan: 12.0 m (39 ft 4.5 in)
* Wing area: 22.0 $m^2$ (237 sq ft)
* Empty weight: 820 kg (1,808 lb)
* Gross weight: 1,250 kg (2,756 lb)
* Powerplant: 1 × Shvetsov M-11FR radial engine , 119 kW (160 hp)

Performance

* Maximum speed: 206 km/h (128 mph, 111 kn)
* Range: 605 km (376 mi, 327 nmi)
* Service ceiling: 3,500 m (11,480 ft)
* Rate of climb: 3.0 m/s (600 ft/min)
