Yakovlev Design Bureau set world records with the Yak-130

Fédération Aéronautique Internationale have registered a number of records set by the test pilots of Yakovlev Design Bureau flying the Yak-130 combat trainer. The batch of the record flights was performed at the airfield of Gromov Flight Research Institute from 17 to 26 October 2016. The flight crews included test pilots Oleg Kononenko, Oleg Mutovin, Andrey Voropaev and Vasily Sevastianov. Several Russian and world records were set for this class of land-based turbojet aircraft with take-off weights between 6,000 to 9,000 kg. As Roman Taskaev, Yakovlev Design Bureau’s Deputy Director General for flight tests, noted: “Record flights have demonstrated both outstanding capabilities of Yak-130 aircraft and the professionalism of our test pilots.’’