Prague, Czech Republic. Surviving Yak-17UTIs include one example at the Polish Aviation Museum in Kraków and the Chinese Aviation Museum, near Beijing. Variants Yak-15U (Yak-15U-RD-10): Improved Yak-15 with tricycle undercarriage and drop tanks, became the prototype of the Yak-17 proper. UTI Yak-17-RD10 (Yak-21T): (No relation to the earlier Yak-17-RD10) Two-seat trainer version of the Yak-15U with long greenhouse canopy over tandem cockpits and tricycle undercarriage. Yak-21T: (T for Tryokhkolyosnoye shassee - "tricycle undercarriage") Alternative designation of the UTI Yak-17-RD10. Unrelated to the earlier Yak-21. Yak-17: Production fighters with tricycle undercarriage. Yak-17UTI: The most-produced variant of the Yak-17, the Yak-17UTI was a tandem-seat, dual-control trainer. Fuel capacity was greatly reduced, owing to the elimination of the wingtip tanks. Initially it was planned to include a single UBS machine gun, but this was omitted on series-produced aircraft. In the U.S., this aircraft was known as the "Type 26", and given the ASCC reporting name "Magnet". Operators Bulgarian Air Force operated a small number of Yak-17UTI between 1951-1954. People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) received one Yak-17UTI for training MiG-9 pilots. Imported 43 Yak-17 in 1950-1951. Later they were used when converting the former La-9 and La-11 pilots to fly MiG-15. Czechoslovak Air Force tested one Yak-17. Polish Air Force operated three Yak-17 (transcribed as Jak-17) and 11 Yak-17UTI (known as Jak-17UTI or Jak-17W) between 1950 and 1955. Instytut Lotnictwa received one Jak-17 from Polish Air Force and used it with civilian markings SP-GLM for tests between 1957 and 1960. Romanian Air Force operated nine Yak-17UTIs as trainers for the Yak-23s from 1951 until 1958. Soviet Air Force operated Yak-17 aircraft from 1948 into the early 1950s. Specifications (Yak-17) See also Citations Bibliography Gordon, Yefim & Kommissarov, Dmitry. Early Soviet Jet Fighters. Manchester, UK: Hikoki Publications, 2014. . Green, William & Swanborough, Gordon. "The Complete Book of Fighters". London: Salamander Books. 1994. . Gunston, Bill. The Osprey Encyclopedia of Russian Aircraft 1875–1995. London: Osprey, 1995. . Mikolajczuk, Marian. Yakovlev Yak-23: The First Yakovlev Jet Fighters. Sandomirez, Poland: Stratus, 2008. . External links Description page on aviation.ru 1940s Soviet fighter aircraft Yak-017 Single-engined jet aircraft Aircraft first flown in 1947