Part of a new generation of acrobatic aircraft from the Yakovlev design bureau which has a long line of aircraft designs since 1937 with the UT-2/AIR-10, the Yak-54 is a development of the single-seat Yak-55M, designed by Chief Constructor Dmitry Drach and Lead Engineer Vladimir Popov.^[1] It first flew 23 December 1993.

It was produced by Saratov Aviation Facility in cooperation with JSV "Gorky U-2" up to 2005, when the production moved to the Arsenyev Aviation Company "Progress" facility in Arsenyev.

Data from Brassey's World Aircraft & Systems Directory 1996^[2]

General characteristics

• Crew: one
• Capacity: one passenger (not carried for competitions)
• Length: 6.91 m (22 ft 8 in)
• Wingspan: 8.15 m (26 ft 9 in)
• Wing area: 12.890 m² (138.75 sq ft)
• Max takeoff weight: 990 kg (2,183 lb) two-seat (850 kg (1874 lb) for single seat operation)
• Powerplant: 1 × AOOT M-14P 9-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine, 270 kW (360 hp)
• Propellers: 3-bladed constant-speed variable-pitch

Performance

• Maximum speed: 450 km/h (280 mph, 243 kn)
• Stall speed: 110 km/h (69 mph, 60 kn)
• Ferry range: 700 km (435 mi, 378 nmi)
• Service ceiling: 4,000 m (13,125 ft)
• g limits: +9, -7
• Roll rate: 345 degrees per second
• Rate of climb: 15.01 m/s (2,955 ft/min)

Related development

• Yakovlev Yak-55

• "Irina Markova - Yak-54 Sochi Olympics". 19 November 2017. Archived from the original on 2021-12-12. Retrieved 23 October 2018.

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