72321 Amodel 1/72 Yak-18 "Maestro"

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The Soviet training aircraft, which replaced the UT-2 aircraft in the Air Force, civil aviation and air clubs as the main aircraft for initial training. He became the founder of an extensive family of various aircraft, including the four-seater Yak-18T. The ancestor of the Yak-18 can be considered the UT-2 aircraft, which was also designed at the Yakovlev Design Bureau, subsequently (in the 1940s) modernized and received the name UT-2L. Many of the developments applied in this modernized model were transferred to the created Yak-18. KV Sinelshchikov was appointed Lead Engineer of the Yak-18 project, the design assignment was received from the chief designer A. S. Yakovlev on December 10, 1945. The first flight of the Yak-18 took place on May 6, 1946, test pilot G.S. Klimushkin took to the sky.