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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. The rare picture, Yak-55 lifts a glider! (7456232980): Aleksandr Markin· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 2. YAK 55 ZU-DSH (16382940166): Bob Adams from Amanzimtoti, South Africa· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3. YAK 55 ZU-DSH (16407986882): Bob Adams from Amanzimtoti, South Africa· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 4. Yak-55 Bautzen: Billyhill· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. Yak-55 RF-02370 (5672822539): Aleksandr Markin· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 6. Yak-55 taxing (6180467413): Aleksandr Markin· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 7. Yakovlev Yak-55 (5718670536): Robert Frola· GFDL
- 8. Yakovlev Yak-55 AN0436271: Alan D R Brown· GFDL
- 9. Yakovlev Yak-55 TF-CCB Goetting: Felix Goetting· GFDL 1.2
- 10. Yakovlev Yak-55, ROSTO AN1299477: Gleb Osokin - Russian AviaPhoto Team· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Yakovlev Yak-55 is a single-seat aerobatic aircraft. Pilots flying the Yak-55 have won several world aerobatic championships.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · mid wing · 8.1 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 45 years ago, in 1981.
- Top speed is 2.3× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1981-05
- number built
- 221
- role
- aerobatic aircraft
- origin
- 🇷🇺 Soviet Union
- makers
- Progress (aviation plant, Arseniev)
- engines
- 1× Vedeneyev M14P
- length
- 7.3 m
- wingspan
- 8.1 m
- height
- 2.8 m
- max take-off weight
- 975 kg
- top speed
- 305 km/h
- range
- —
- wings
- mid wing
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q116864, Wikipedia: Yakovlev Yak-55 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.