Yakovlev Yak-23

Yak-23
Polish Yak-23 in the Lubuskie Muzeum Wojskowe, Drzonów
General information
Type	Fighter aircraft
Manufacturer	Yakovlev
Primary users	Soviet Air Forces Polish Air Force Romanian Air Force Czechoslovak Air Force Bulgarian Air Force
Number built	316 + 3 prototypes
History
Manufactured	October 1949–January 1951
Introduction date	1949
First flight	8 July 1947
Retired	Early 1960s
Developed from	Yakovlev Yak-17

The Yakovlev Yak-23 (Russian: Яковлев Як-23; USAF/DoD reporting name Type 28, NATO reporting name Flora)^[1] is an early Soviet jet fighter with a straight wing. It was developed from the Yak-17 in the late 1940s and used a reverse-engineered copy of a British engine. It was not built in large numbers as it was inferior in performance to the swept-wing Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15. Many Yak-23s were exported to the Warsaw Pact nations and remained in service for most of the 1950s, although some were still in use a decade later.