Ooooops! ... I guess I can't edit my post here ...
The YAK-9 was Sterling Kit
S-3 ! ... At that time, during the Korean "Conflict"

, Sterling representatives toured the country with S-2 & S-3's popularizing a new sport known as Control Line Combat Flying.
(If it weren't for flashbacks, I'd probably have no memory at all left ... [

] )