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)