The Yakovlev Yak-18T is the four-seat utility and multi-engine trainer variant of the classic Soviet Yak-18 series, developed in the 1960s as a more capable successor to earlier Yak-18 models. The Yak-18T features a wider fuselage, retractable tricycle landing gear, and excellent aerobatic capability, making it popular both as a military trainer and among civilian warbird and aerobatic pilots worldwide.