Yakovlev Yak-1

• Manufacturer: Academy
• Scale: 1/48
• Box Release Date: 2021
• New Tool Date: 1998
• Presented By: Bobby Waldron
• Marking options: 6
• Model dimension: Length: 173mm Width: ?? Height: 69mm
• Decals: Academy
• PE parts: No
• Painting mask: Yes
• Resin parts: No
• Item No: 12343

The Academy 1/48 Yakovlev Yak-1 Battle of Stalingrad from the plastic aircraft model kits range accurately recreates the real life US WWII aircraft. This model requires paint and glue to complete.

Markings for 6 aircraft

• Lt Mikhail Dmitrievich Baranov, 183rd IAP, Stalingrad Front, Autumn 1942.
• Lt Lydia Litvjak, history’s first female fighter ace, 296th AIP, Stalingrad, Spring 1943.
• Capt B. N. Eremin, 296th AIP, Brigadirovka airfield, Ukraine, Winter 1941-42.
• Maj Fedor Ivanovich Shinkarenko, 42nd IAP, Winter 1942.
• 1st Lt S. M. Reshetov, 273rd IAP, 268th IAD, Summer 1942.
• Captured by Luftwaffe 1942.

Includes canopy mask.

The Yakovlev Yak-1 (Russian: Яковлев Як-1) was a Soviet fighter aircraft of World War II. The Yak-1 was a single-seat monoplane with a composite structure and wooden wings; production began in early 1940.

The Yak-1 was a maneuverable, fast and competitive fighter aircraft. The composite-wooden structure made it easy to maintain and the engine proved to be reliable. It formed the basis for subsequent developments from the Yakovlev bureau. It was the founder of a family of aircraft, with some 43,000 being built. As a reward, designer Alexander Yakovlev was awarded the Order of Lenin (Russian Орден Ленина, Orden Lenina) (the highest civilian decoration bestowed by the Soviet Union), a 100,000 ruble prize, and a ZIS motor car.