what is it?
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.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · shoulder wing · 12 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 82 years ago, in 1944.
- Top speed is 1.6× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 12 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1944
- number built
- 40
- role
- utility aircraft
- origin
- 🇷🇺 Soviet Union
- makers
- Yakovlev
- engines
- 1× Shvetsov M-11FR radial engine / Shvetsov M-11
- length
- 8.5 m
- wingspan
- 12 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,250 kg
- top speed
- 206 km/h
- range
- 605 km
- ceiling
- 3,500 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 Q1378468, Wikipedia: Yakovlev Yak-10 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.