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4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. UT-1 -1978: Leo Medvedev/Лев Леонидович Медведев· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Yakovlev UT-1 Yakovlev UT-1 Yakovlev Museum Moscow Sep93 1 (16965392549): San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives· Public domain
- 3. Yakovlev UT-1 Yakovlev UT-1 Yakovlev Museum Moscow Sep93 2 (17151578155): San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives· Public domain
- 4. Yakovlev UT-1 Yakovlev UT-1 Yakovlev Museum Moscow Sep93 3 (17125614676): San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives· Public domain
what is it?
The Yakovlev UT-1 (Russian: Яковлев УТ-1) was a single-seater trainer aircraft used by the Soviet Air Force from 1937 until the late 1940s.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · low wing · 7.3 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 90 years ago, in 1936.
- Top speed is 2.0× 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
- 1936-05-31
- introduced
- 1936
- retired
- 1940
- status
- retired
- number built
- 1,256
- role
- trainer/fighter trainer/aerobatic
- origin
- 🇷🇺 Soviet Union
- makers
- Yakovlev
- engines
- 1× Shvetsov M-11Ye / Shvetsov M-11
- length
- 5.8 m
- wingspan
- 7.3 m
- height
- 2.3 m
- max take-off weight
- 598 kg
- top speed
- 257 km/h
- range
- 670 km
- ceiling
- 7,120 m
- wings
- low wing
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2322529, Wikipedia: Yakovlev UT-1 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.