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Yakovlev Yak11"Moose"

Yak 11
type: LET C-11
Registration: F-AZNN
Constructor number: 25111/05
Ash-21 Shevetsov Ash21 de 700Cv
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This advanced trainer is part of the Yak 11 built in Tchecoslovakia by LET.

Constructed in 1948 with the constructor number 25111/05, it was then taken in charge by the Tchecoslovakian Air Force before being transferred to Egypt where, it is said, it was never flown.

After two years of patient negotiations Amicale Jean-Baptiste Salis finally acquired in 1982, 41 derelict Yak 11 that one of its member had located in a desert place of Egypt.

These airplanes were disassembled on place and crated in 22 containers to be sent to La Ferté-Alais.

C/n 25111/05 became Pierre Dague's who decided to convert the airframe into a single-seater. (Pierre Dague, at the controlss of a T-28 was killed in a mid-air collision with another T-28 the 8th september 1991during an airshow in St Rambert d'Albon). In doing so, he suppressed the front seat and radio equipement, realized fairings and a new cockpit canopy. Pierre said that the trimming change to the rear that resulted improved the handling of the plane. The empty weight is now between 3528 and 4 190 lb. An other modification was the replacement of the fixed tailwheel by a retracting one of a Yak 3.

These modifications and restoration to flying status took three years and 3 500 man hours of work to Pierre Dague and Jerry Marchadier.

Overhaul and refection to as new of the 7 cylinders direct injection ShvetsovAsh-21 (760 hp at 2 300 rpm) engine was ccommitted to Serge Guyot and electrics to Jacques Le Coarer retired from the CEV (the french air test center).

Pierre Dague's Yak was the first of the egyptian batch to take to the air.

Following the first flight of the 16th may 1987 from Cerny La Ferté-Alais airfield Pierre Dague's Yak was registered FAZNN. The colors chosen where those of Lefèvre's Yak 3, a french ace of the famous Normandy-Niemen Squadron fighting with the Soviets on the russian theatre of operations, hence NN in the registration.

dessin harald Yak11

In late may 1987 general Cuffaut, ancient C/O of the Normandy-Niemen Squadron, visited Cerny La Ferté-Alais to christen Pierre Dague's Yak.

Marcel Lefevre sur son Yak  cuffaut3

Marcel LEFEVRE on his Yak3                                       Général léon CUFFAUT

Following the death of Pierre Dague F-AZNN finally was sold to George Perez in the end of the nineties.
Since 2012, George Perez has his Yak based in Melun Villaroche with France's Flying Warbirds.

F-AZNN in flight at Hanweide Airshow 2013

                                        

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