Yakovlev Yak-9

## Users

- Albanian Air Force was given 72 aircraft in 1947, including 12 Yak-9V trainers.

- Bulgarian Air Force

- People's Liberation Army Air Force

- French Air Force (_Armée de l'Air_)
    - _Normandie-Niemen_ squadron

- Hungarian Air Force was given aircraft in 1949. The type's Hungarian name was "Vércse" (Kestrel).

- was given 34 aircraft in late June 1945.

- North Korean Air Force

- Air Force of the Polish Army
- Polish Air Force used several aircraft from 1947 to 1953.
- Polish Navy

- Soviet Air Force
- Soviet Air Defence Forces

- SFR Yugoslav Air Force – 16 Yak-9T, 40 Yak-9P, 47 Yak-9D/M and 68 Yak-9V aircraft in 1944–1950/1960
    - 111th Fighter Aviation Regiment (1947–1948)
    - 112th Fighter Aviation Regiment (1947–1948)
    - 94th Fighter Aviation Regiment (1948–1952)
    - 116th Fighter Aviation Regiment (1948–1950)
    - 117th Fighter Aviation Regiment (1948–1950)
    - 141st Training Aviation Regiment (1952–1953)
    - 2nd Training Aviation Regiment (1946–1948)
    - 101st Fighter-Training Aviation Regiment (1948–1950)
    - 103rd Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (1950–1951)
    - 104th Training Aviation Regiment (1948–1950)
    - Training Squadron of 32nd Aviation Division (1953–1959)
    - Training Squadron of 39th Aviation Division (1953–1959)
    - Training Squadron of 44th Aviation Division (1953–1954)

## Surviving aircraft

- Bulgaria

- Yak-9P on display at the Aviation Museum in Krumovo, Plovdiv.

- North Korea

- Yak-9P on display at Victorious War Museum in Pyongyang.

- Poland

- Yak-9P on static display at the Museum of the Polish Navy in Gdynia, Pomerania. It is tactical number 2 and was used by the Navy Aviation Escadrille until 1956. On 12 December 1956, it was transferred to the museum on behalf of the Navy Command.
- Yak-9P on static display at the Museum of the Polish Army in Warsaw, Mazovia. It is tactical number 23 and was used by the 1st Fighter Aviation Regiment from 1947 until 1950. It was transferred to the museum on 10 August 1950 on behalf of the Air Force Command.

- Russia

- Yak-9U on static display at the Central Air Force Museum in Monino, Moscow Oblast.
- Yak-9 on static display at the Vadim Zadorozhny Museum of Technology in Krasnogorsky District, Moscow Oblast.
- Yak-9 on static display at the Museum of the Air Forces of the Northern Fleet in Safonovo, Murmansk Oblast.

- Serbia

- Yak-9P in storage at the Aeronautical Museum Belgrade in Surčin, Belgrade.

- Ukraine

- Yak-9 on static display at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War in Kyiv.

- United States

- Yak-9U on static display at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington.

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## Infobox (aircraft begin)

- **name**: Yak-9
- **image**: File:Yakolev Yak-9U (c-n 1257) (39004376092).jpg
- **caption**: Yak-9U fighter in the Central Air Force Museum, Monino, Russia


## Infobox (aircraft type)

- **type**: Fighter aircraft, Fighter
- **national origin**: Soviet Union
- **design group**: Yakovlev, A.S. Yakovlev Design Bureau
- **builder**: Novosibirsk Aircraft Production Association, Plant No.153 (Novosibirsk),  Production Corporation Polyot, Plant No.166 (Omsk), Plant No.82 (Moscow)
- **first flight**: 6 July 1942 (Yak-7DI)
- **introduced**: October 1942
- **retired**: 1950 (Soviet Air Forces), 1951 (Korean People's Army Air and Anti-Air Force), 1955 (Bulgarian Air Force)
- **primary user**: Soviet Air Forces
- **produced**: October 1942 – December 1948
- **number built**: 16,769
- **developed from**: Yakovlev Yak-7