Yakovlev Yak-3 M flight

The Yak-3 M of the Military Aviation Museum making a demo flight in October of 2021. While the Yak-3 was produced from 1944 to 1946, the M model is a "continuation" aircraft Yakovlev produced in 1991-92 in Orenburg, Russia. Yakovlev used original plans and dies that survived to make the new run of 12 aircraft, plus 9 Yak-9 models. American Allison V-12 engines were substituted for the unavailable and unreliable Klimov V-12s.


I know there is a lot of wind noise - my daughter was using my video camera, so I resorted to my mirrorless camera which doesn't seem to suppress that so well.



The Military Aviation Museum is in Virginia Beach, Virginia. militaryaviationmuseum.org