Jakovlev "AIR-3" – the Soviet education - training plane

The youngest citizens of the USSR - pioneers and schoolchildren - participated in the development of Soviet aviation in the first five-year period as much as possible. It's just not clear - how much is forced; how much is voluntary. On the initiative of the students of one of the schools, the newspaper "Pionierskaja Pravda" started collecting funds for the design and production of a light training plane. And such an airplane was produced in 1929. It was designed by A.S. Yakovlev, a student at the Military Air Academy, named after N.E. Zhukovsky, and manufactured by members of the Academy's Osoaviachim company. In October 1929 pilot A. I. Filin, a student of the Academy, made a flight without landing from Moscow to Mineralnye Vody in this airplane. Within 10 hours and 23 minutes a distance of 1700 km was covered. During this flight, two international records in the category of light aircraft were broken - flight distance and average flight speed. "AIR-3" was the third design of the young engineer, who would later become a famous aircraft designer, Alexander Sergeevich Yakovlev. Back then, he didn't have a team of designers and had to do everything himself - design, calculate resistances, draw drawings of the future plane, and was its main builder. The "AIR-3" aircraft was completed at the "Aviarabotnik" factory in the summer of 1929. It was built with the money, collected by the pioneers, and was therefore named after their newspaper – “Pionierskaja Pravda”. At the same time, A. Yakovlev designed and built another plane - "AIR-4".

A well-designed and highly detailed model, that will be glued together by a modeler of any experience. True, beginners and modelers with little experience are recommended to work under the supervision of a more experienced colleague. Perfectly restored cabin interior, engine layout, control plates are separated, "metallic" paint printing is used, where necessary. Colors reserves are available.