| Yak-42 | |
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| A Yakovlev Yak-42D of IJT in 2008 | |
| Role | Narrow-body airliner |
| Design group | Yakovlev |
| Built by | Saratov Aviation Plant |
| First flight | 7 March 1975 |
| Introduction | 22 December 1980 |
| Status | In service |
| Primary users | Izhavia Jet Express Airlines Kosmos Airlines KrasAvia RusJet |
| Produced | 1977–2003 |
| Number built | 187[1] |
| Developed from | Yakovlev Yak-40 |
| Developed into | Yakovlev Yak-46 |
The Yakovlev Yak-42 (Russian: Яковлев Як-42; NATO reporting name: "Clobber") is a 100/120-seat three-engined mid-range passenger jet developed in the mid 1970s to replace the technically obsolete Tupolev Tu-134. It was the first airliner produced in the Soviet Union to be powered by modern high-bypass turbofan engines.[2]