Yak 52 Air Hose, Nose Gear Retract - 1-4-1-280
This hose supplies air to retraction side of the Nose Gear Actuator to raise the Yak 52's nose wheel. This is number 88 on the factory schematic.
On the Pilots cockpit floor, forward of the rudder bar, the floor bulkhead fitting nearest the pilot is the correct connection for this hose.
1 per airframe.
New Russian hose material meeting the factory specifications has been used, plus good-condition used Russian hose fittings.
This part should be installed on a Yak 52 with standard nose gear. No fitness for use should be assumed if this hose is installed on any other Nose gear/airframe combination.
Once you've fitted this new hose, don't throw your old one away ! If the Original Russian hose fittings on your old hose are in good shape, please cut the ends off and ship them to us.
For each well cared-for RUSSIAN metric hose-end fitting, once received, inspected and deemed acceptable by us we'll send you an electronic refund (not to exceed $15 US per hose end) .
The blog has more details on our unambiguous accept / reject criteria.