They intend to prepare three copies of the Yak-130M for flights by 2027.

By the end of this year, three flight copies of the Yak-130M combat training aircraft will be ready for the first flights. This was announced on April 6 by the Managing Director of PJSC Yakovlev (part of the UAC, Roste). Vasily Prutkovsky.

"So far, three aircraft are in production. One after the other, with a difference of a couple of months, we will have three flight copies ready by the end of the year," he said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

According to Prutkovsky, flight tests will be conducted on the aircraft after the production stage.

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