LET C – 11 (Yak – 11) - the USSR/ Czekoslovakian school fighter

The prototype of the Yak-11 two-seater improved training aircraft (with Ash-82 radial engine) took off for the first time in 1945. November 10, then it was known as Yak-3UTI (Russian: Як-3УТИ). This plane was created in 1944 in the middle, of the redesign of the Yakovlev Yak-3 fighter, although during the war there was almost no need for the development of training aircraft. The aircraft was armed with a synchronized 12.7 mm UB machine gun and there were hangers for two 100 kg aerial bombs under the wings. After that, tests were carried out with the Ash-21 radial engine, and in 1946 in October, the second prototype appeared, already named Yak-11. This prototype had improved cabins, the engine was mounted on damping mounts. Tests of this variant were successfully carried out in 1946. October, 1947 factories in Saratov and Leningrad began to produce it. USSR 1947-1955 produced 3,859 Yak-11s, and were later produced under license (707 units, called C-11s) by the Czechoslovakian company LET Kunovice. Yak-11 entered service in 1947 USSR AF and DOSAAF as a standard advanced training aircraft. Both the Yak-11 and the C-11 were used by all Warsaw Pact countries, exported to 18 countries (e.g. Africa, Middle East, Asia). The North Korean Yak-11 also fought in the air battles of the Korean War. The Yak-11 was the first North Korean aircraft, shot down by US aviation (North American F-82 "Twin Mustang" over Kimp Airfield, June 27, 1950). German DR aviation destroyed US reconnaissance balloons with Yak-11 fighters.

A well designed and well detailed model of a Czechoslovak AF training aircraft of medium complexity, suitable for a modeler of almost any experience, but for a novice modeler it should be glued with an opaque cockpit canopy and included undercarriage under the supervision of a more experienced colleague and should not be one of the first, more complex models You build.