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    Airframe Family: Yakovlev Yak-11 / LET C.11
    Latest Model:C-11
    Last Military Serial:705 EAF
    Construction Number:171205
    Last Civil Registration:G-OYAK
    Compressed ID:Let C-11 sn 705 EAF cn 171205 cr G-...
    Latest Owner or Location:Mark G. Jefferies, Little Gransden

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    Dates

    Event

    1964

    Constructed as a C-11 by Let at Czechoslovakia.
    Elsewhere -including the CAA record shows c/n as 1701139

    1964

    To Czech Government with new c/r OK-KIH.
    For delivery flight.

    Circa 1964

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Egyptian Air Force with s/n 705.

    From 1970 to 1985

    Withdrawn from use.
    And stored, dismantled at El Aakha AB, Egypt.

    1985

    To Alain Capel and Jean Salis partnership, La Ferte-Alais, Paris, France.
    Just one of 41 Yak C.11s: shipped to France ex Egypt in 1985.

    25 February 1988

    To Eddie K. Coventry, Earls Colne with new c/r G-OYAK.
    Who restoted the aircraft.

    Markings Applied: White 27, Soviet markings

    18 November 1990

    First post-restoration Flight.

    21 April 1998

    To Angela Helen Soper, Navestock, Romford keeping c/r G-OYAK.

    1 July 2000


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: At RNAS Yeovilton, Somerset, UK.

    3 June 2006


    Photographer: Andrew Shaw
    Notes: Seen at the Biggin Hill Air Fair, June 2006

    23 January 2012

    Markings Applied: 9 White
    Soviet Air Force.

    22 May 2015


    Photographer: John Tomlinson
    Notes: 2015 photo at Little Grandsen in the UK

    21 June 2018

    Involved in an incident.
    Yakovlev YAK C11, G-OYAK was substantially damaged in a forced landing due to a total loss of engine power; aircraft came down in a field to the east of Little Gransden Airfield, Cambridgeshire.

    30 June 2020

    To Mark G. Jefferies, Little Gransden keeping c/r G-OYAK.
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     Terry Fletcher
    John Tomlinson
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