Yak-9P

[DaveM2]

I can confirm WB coments after speaking to one of the team who helped 'restore' the aircraft, it does have an original aft fuselage and started out as a bare frame and wing spars. All skins were manufactured at Orenburg in the nineties and the cowling is 'fictional'

Dave

[net_sailor]

I would be very interested in any info you have about the 'past life' of any of these museum treasures.

Sadly some of them are not treated as a treasure.
Here are some pictures, I took in Gdynia a few months ago

[kurlannaiskos]

Gentlemen,
Thank You for your additional responses to this topic.
I had hoped that this might have been an original Yak-9 finally getting a long overdue restoration, but as usual it is more 'revisionist history'

with this few original parts it will probably be impossible to determine what model of Yak-9 this was originally.

I have seen other photos of this same machine (Gdyna) taken by someone else, but your photos are nice , too.

this is another example of a very prized and precious (at least to me) aircraft that has been left to become a derelict at the hands of Mother Nature.
this aircraft deserves to be brought indoors for a full Restoration and then to remain indoors for display.

[yasig]

Hi,
One complete YAK 9P was preserved at Yugoslav Aviation Museum ,waiting to be restored and exposed, its post WWII all metal YAK 9P serialed 2826/26 c/n 04-36.

Also YAK-3 serialed 2252/52 c/n 8545 was in same museum and was exposed within other WW II fighters collection (Spitfire,Hurricane, Me109,Thunderbolt...)

[Theodor]

Originally Posted by kurlannaiskos

Yes , there are four :
one on display at the Yakovlev OKB Museum in Moskva (Moscow)
this machine is often 'borrowed' by the Zhukovskiy Institute and can be seen at Monino.
the are two in Poland , one in Warsaw and the other in Krakow.
the final one is on display in Sofia , Bulgaria

I am only an year late for the thread , but want to say, there is no Yak-9P in Bulgaria. There used to be one, but long ago /probably in the 70's?/ the Big Brother - USSR - requested it... you know, the Big Brother's requests could not be ignored , so it was shipped to the USSR and a common and useless Lisunov arrived in return. There is only one single Yak-9 left in Bulgaria, in the Aviation museum - and it is not a P.

[JoeB]

There's a Yak-9P at the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum in Pyongyang. It was, of course, the main fighter type of the North Korean AF at the start of the Korean War in 1950. Here's a u-tube video with brief view of it around 2:50 into the clip; I've seen photo's which show it more clearly but unfortunately can't find them at the moment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftFFH4M-nJo

Joe

[kurlannaiskos]

Yasig,
Thank You for an update/correction of this information.
on my hard-drive there are numerous high-quality photos of the Yak-3 taken by a native who went there to do research on Yak fighters.
(although this is the first time I have seen the Factory Production number)

this is also the first I've heard of Yak-9P 0415336 (2826) as being scheduled for restoration and display.(and Thank You for providing the
Factory Production Number here , too. '153' is often times omitted and replaced by '-' )

Theodor,
I am sorry you lost this precious aviation artifact , but Thank You for this information. so we now know where Monino's machine came from.
I would also be interested in anything you can provide on this 'other Yak'
is that a Yak-9U by any chance? if so it might be the only original one in the world.

JoeB,
Thank You for this link.
it seems to show a Yak-18 , La-9 and Yak-9P ,but I wish there were more images and details.
I would like to know more about all of these aircraft for model-building purposes.

[Theodor]

I think it is a Yak-9U. Needs some restoration. Here are a couple of photos:

http://pic.bgspotters.net/?id=9153

http://pic.bgspotters.net/?id=9154

[Franek Grabowski]

Looks like 9P for me. Anyway, was not there a twin seater in a museum in Bulgaria? I recall seeing a photo of it together with Il-2.

[Theodor]

This is the single Yak-9 in Bulgaria. And together with it the only left IL-2 in the country. By the way this is an older photo, showing the Yak with a different and not well made canopy:

http://pic.bgspotters.net/?id=3596

And the Il-2