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Vintage Yak-40 Yakovlev Regional Airliner Jet Airline Aircraft Aeroplane Pin Badge
Vintage Yak-40 Yakovlev Regional Airliner Jet Airline Aircraft Aeroplane Pin Badge
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A pretty, gold coloured metal pin badge from the 1980's advertising Aeroflot and the Yakovlev 40 (YAK-40) jet aircraft.
The badge face is 3.2cm wide and has a safety clasp or long stick pin style fastener.
- Internal flights in the Soviet Union in the 1960's were largely served by piston engined aircraft. Aeroflot wanted to replace these aircraft with a more up to date turboprop design.
Yakovlev were awarded the contract and considered many design variations, eventually settling on the Yak-40 that could operate in bad weather and on poor airstrips.
The Yak 40 was in production from 1967-1981 and was sold throughout the world.
By the time production ended in November 1981, the factory at Saratov had produced 1,011 aircraft. Yak-40s operated by Aeroflot had been the backbone of Aeroflot's local operations, flying to 276 domestic destinations.
