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The Yakovlev Yak-52 first flew in 1976, and was produced in Bacau, Romania,by Aerostar. Designed as a primary trainer before moving onto jet aircraft. The aircraft is fully aerobatics capable of +7g / -5 g

The YAK 52 is a two seat piston engined primary trainer aircraft which is a tandem
cockpit variant of the single seat Yak 50 aeroplane. It was announced in 1978 as a
replacement for the Yak 18 and made it's first flight less than a year after
commencement of the design work. The Yak 52 is designed by the Russian
company, Yakovlev, although all Yak 52 aeroplanes have been produced in
Romania under license. Manufacture of the type began in 1979 and the 1000th
aeroplane was delivered in 1987.

G-YAKR (Formally LY-AOV) was constructed in 1989, and entered service with the Russian
DOSAAF (Military Sport Aviation) organisation with first flight on 11 August 1991. It
served with DOSAAF until 15 April 1994. A major overhaul was carried out by
Termikas on 18 April 2001 at 600:27 hours The aircraft was then ferried to the UK
on the Lithuanian register with a normal Category Certificate of Airworthiness.