Yak-141

The attached photo was found in a Russian magazine.

It shows a Yak-130 trainer in camo – with an array of weapons in front of it.

What is interesting is that in the background there are TWO Yak-141
‘Freestyle’ VTOL a/c.

I photographed two Yak-141’s in 1993 – one at the MAKS airshow, the other, which had slight differences, at the museum at Khodynka in central Moscow – see my photos at :- http://www.lindenhillimports.com/yak-141.htm

The Khodynka example disappeared – and we saw it a few years later hidden behind some fencing at the Yakovlev OKB museum – in central Moscow not far from Khodynka.

On the visit the following year, they were dragging it out from behind the fencing (very roughly I might add!). They told us it was going to be put on display outside the museum hall. It has not yet appeared – as of two years ago.

The hangar in the photograph LOOKS like the hangar at the Yakovlev OKB – although I cannot be certain. We have glanced inside it on occasions – but they won’t let us in and it is usually kept closed. I also suspect that they have the full-scale wooden mockup of the Yak-44 in there – see :- http://www.lindenhillimports.com/yak-44.htm

If it is the hangar at the OKB, what is the Yak-130 doing there? How – and why – do they transport it from Zhukovsky to central Moscow?

Either it is a mockup – or the hangar is not at the OKB – but at Zhukovsky.

If it is at Zhukovsky – why are the Yak-141’s there ?

Intriguing…………….
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