According to information obtained by the news agency Avia.pro, Russian pilots, from October 17 to 26, 2017, were able to set nine world records on the Yak-130 aircraft. Crews consisting of such pilots as Oleg Kononenko (Hero of Russia - ed.), Oleg Mutovin (Hero of Russia - ed.), Vasily Sevastyanov and Andrey Voropaev, set records for the rate of climb, both with a payload and without her, which indicates the fact that Russian aircraft are great for training future pilots.

"Russian and world records have been established for climbing rates at various altitudes with payload and without it in the class of mass-produced turbojet ground-based aircraft with take-off mass from 6000 kg to 9000 kg," the corporation said.

The crew of Kononenko and Sevastyanova, for example, set a record of climbing speed to a height of 6000 meters - 1 minute 42 seconds. Also, a record was reached for the climb rate to 9000 meters - for 2 minutes and 44 seconds, Kononenko and Mutovin brought the aircraft to the specified altitude.

As follows from the data presented in open sources, as of 2018 year in the arsenal of the Air Space Force of the Russian Federation there were 85 airplanes Yak-130, and in the near future an additional purchase of such aircraft is planned.