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The Yakovlev Yak-54 is a 1990s Russian aerobatic and sports competition aircraft designed by the Yakovlev Aircraft Corporation. Part of a new generation of acrobatic aircraft from the Yakovlev design bureau which has a long line of aircraft designs since 1937 with the UT-2/AIR-10, the Yak-54 is a development of the single-seat Yak-55M, designed by Chief Constructor Dmitry Drach and Lead Engineer Vladimir Popov. It first flew 23 December 1993.
General characteristics
Crew: One
Constuction: All-metal
Capacity: One
Length: 6.91 m (22 ft 8 in)
Wingspan: 8.15 m (26 ft 9 in)
Wing area: 12.890 m2 (138.75 sq ft)
Max takeoff weight: 990 kg (2,183 lb)
Powerplant: 1 × AOOT M-14P radial piston engine, 270 kW (360 hp)
Propellers: 3-bladed
Performance
Maximum speed: 450 km/h; 280 mph (243 kn)
Stall speed: 111 km/h; 69 mph (60 kn)
Ferry range: 700 km; 435 mi (378 nmi)
Service ceiling: 4,000 m (13,125 ft)
g limits: +9, -7
Roll rate: 345 degrees a second
Rate of climb: 15.01 m/s (2,955 ft/min)