The first series production Yak-130 Mitten combat trainer for the Russian air force (left) will be on static display at the MAKS 2009 air show in Zhukovsky this week. Assembled at the Sokol plant in Nizhny Novgorod, it was flown for the first time in May and is the initial one of 12 Yak-130s ordered by the air force in 2005. The military selected the aircraft, originally developed by Yakovlev design bureau (now part of the Irkut Corp.), as the replacement for its aging fleet of Czech L-39s.
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