Lavochkin Aircraft

Lavochkin/Gorbunov/Gudkov LaGG-3 1940 The LaGG-3 was essentially the series production version of the LaGG-1 with a revised outer wing ... read more ... Semyon A Lavochkin, together with V P Gorbunov and M I Gudkov, established a new design ... read more ... Lavochkin/Gorbunov/Gudkov LaGG-1 1940 Lavochkin La-5 1942 read more ... The ultimate refinement of the basic La-5 rather than a new design, the La-7 was developed ... read more ... Lavochkin La-7 1944 Lavochkin La-126 1945 By the end of 1944, the Lavochkin bureau had abandoned further development of the mixed-construction La-7 in ... read more ... Closely related to the La-126, the La-130 - first flown on 16 June 1946 - embodied ... read more ... Lavochkin La-9 1946 Lavochkin La-150 1946 The Lavochkin bureau's response to Yosif Stalin's order of February 1945 to design and build a ... read more ... Despite its designation, the La-152 bore little more relation to the La-150 than its common design ... read more ... Lavochkin La-152 1946 Lavochkin La-11 1947 Evolved from the La-9 to meet a requirement for a fighter with sufficient range to fulfil ... read more ... The first Soviet fighter to utilise wing sweepback, and consequently known unofficially as the Strelka (Dart), the ... read more ... Lavochkin La-160 1947 Lavochkin La-15 1948 A replacement prototype for the La-172 was designated La-174D (the suffix signifying dubler, literally "replacement"), and entered ... read more ... In March 1946, Yosif Stalin assigned the task of developing advanced single-seat fighters around the newly-acquired Rolls-Royce ... read more ... Lavochkin La-168 1948 Lavochkin La-172 1948 In parallel with the specification to which the La-168 was to be developed, a requirement was ... read more ... Whereas sweptback surfaces had been adopted for both the La-168 and La-172, the La-174TK, designed to meet ... read more ... Lavochkin La-174TK 1948 Lavochkin La-176 1948 Combining a fuselage essentially similar to that of the Lavochkin La-168 with wings sweptback 45° at quarter-chord, ... read more ... Designed to meet a requirement formulated in 1948 for a two-seat twin-engined all-weather interceptor, the La-200 was ... read more ... Lavochkin La-200 1949 Lavochkin La-190 1951 Owing little or nothing to earlier fighters from the Lavochkin design bureau, the La-190 was conceived ... read more ... The issue in November 1951 of a specification for an all-weather fighter capable of mounting standing ... read more ... Lavochkin La-200B 1952 Lavochkin La-250 1956 Destined to be the last aircraft produced by the Lavochkin design bureau, the La-250, known unofficially ... read more ...