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The YAK 18T is a very robust 4 seat touring version. With 2 persons aerobatics are permitted, including inverted spins. It is also powered by the 9 cylinder 360 or 400 hp radial.
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History
The Yak-18T was first designed in the mid 60's by Sergei Yakovlev (Yakovlev's son), to serve as a primary/advanced trainer, as well as a light transport usage. The aircraft had virtually nothing in common with the previous Yak-18s, and the fuselage was changed from a welded tube to a stressed-skin, structure. The prototype was fitted with the 300hp AI-14RF engine. Some 450 test flights were completed during this period (1968-1969) then the plane was fitted with the more powerful Vedeneyev M-14 radial engine. Full production was ordered at Smolensk and different versions were equipped for a variety of uses such as fire-patrol, photographic and an ambulance version.
The first public viewing of the aircraft was in 1967 at the Paris Airshow, but for a variety of reasons tests on the aircraft were very prolonged, and the final production standard was agreed only in 1973, and at this stage incorporating the 360hp M14P engine. Full production began in 1973 - the Smolensk factory manufactured a total of 587 aircraft between 1973 and 1982, when the type ceased production. At that stage it was being used as the primary and advanced trainer for all airline (Aeroflot) pilots in the Soviet Union. The decision was made in the middle 1980s to do all primary training for such pilots in the Let 410. The decision was made and in consequence an edict went out that all 18Ts should be scrapped and indeed a number (no-one knows how many) were chopped up. However, it was quickly realized that this was a very uneconomic way of training pilots and the decision was reversed.
In 1991 Slava Kondratiev (who had been a Yak designer, designing the Yak-55 and 55M before leaving to join Sukhoi to design their current range of aircraft, and then finally establishing his own design bureau, Technoavia) felt that there would be commercial prospects if the 18T aircraft was put back into production. Technoavia went ahead and manufactured some 50+ further aircraft in 1993/4's (at Smolensk factory).
