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LET C-11 (aka Yak-11) G-BTUB

Mark Jefferies & John Jefferies

Although not a genuine World War Two warbird, the Yak-11 trainer was a development of the Russian Yak-3 fighter of that conflict. The idea for a trainer aircraft was originally proposed in 1944, and the first prototype, essentially a modified Yak-3 designated the Yak-3UTI, flew in 1945. The first true Yak-11 flew in 1946.

Between 1947 and 1954, 3859 Yak-11s were produced in the Soviet Union. In 1954 the LET company of Czechoslovakia started manufacturing the Yak-11 under licence, designating it the C-11, of which 707 were produced.