what is it?
The Yakovlev Yak-112 Filin (Owl) is a Russian/Soviet civil utility aircraft that first flew in 1992. It is an all-metal high-wing strut braced monoplane with fixed tricycle landing gear.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · shoulder wing · 10.3 m wingspan
base stats
Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).
fun facts
- First flew 34 years ago, in 1992.
- Top speed is 1.8× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 10.3 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 1,000 km: 6× Amsterdam to Brussels.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1992-10-20
- number built
- —
- role
- trainer / glider tug
- origin
- 🇷🇺 Russia
- makers
- Irkutsk Aviation Plant, Smolensk Aviation Plant
- engines
- 1× Lycoming IO-540 / IO-360-ES
- crew
- 1
- passengers
- 2
- length
- 7 m
- wingspan
- 10.3 m
- height
- 2.9 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,520 kg
- top speed
- 230 km/h
- cruise speed
- 193 km/h
- range
- 1,000 km
- ceiling
- 4,000 m
- wings
- shoulder wing
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1679634, Wikipedia: Yakovlev Yak-112 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.