Finnish Aviation Museum
# Finnish Aviation Museum

The Finnish Aviation Museum (Finnish: Suomen ilmailumuseo, Swedish: Finlands flygmuseum) is a museum specialising in aircraft, located near Helsinki Airport in Veromies, Vantaa, Finland.

## History

The Aviation Museum Society (Finnish: Ilmailumuseoyhdistys ry) was founded on 4 December 1969. Opened in 1972, the museum was initially located in the basement of the Helsinki Airport terminal but received its own facilities in 1981. The museum has constantly expanded and today has an office wing, research rooms, aviation library, archive, and an auditorium for 200 people.

Currently the museum is owned by the Finnish Aviation Museum Foundation (Finnish: Suomen Ilmailumuseosäätiö), founded in 1996.

## Exhibition

The museum displays some 9,600 items, and the library has over 16,000 books and 160,000 aviation-related magazines. Furthermore, the museum has a large collection of flight instruction and service books. There are also some 78,000 photographs, negatives, and slides. The archive spans some 1,800 shelf metres.

The whole collection comprises some 80 aircraft, of which 22 are gliders. The following is a list of some of the more noteworthy aircraft:

| Adaridi (Atol 450, located at the Heureka museum?) Beechcraft 95-A55 Baron Bell 47D-1 Blomqvist-Nyberg, the second oldest Finnish aircraft Caudron C.60 Convair 440 Metropolitan De Havilland Vampire F.B.52 and DH Vampire Trainer T.55 De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver DFS 108 Olympia Douglas DC-2 hull Douglas DC-3 Eklund TE-1 flying boat Fibera KK-1e Utu, 2 aircraft Fieseler FI 156K-1 Storch Focke-Wulf Fw 44 J Stieglitz Folland Gnat Mk.1 Fouga Magister CM170 A Gloster Gamecock (fuselage wreck) Grunau 9 Grunau Baby IIb, 2 aircraft Harakka I and II Heinonen HK-1 Keltiäinen Airship Colt GA-42, gondola I.V.L. A.22 Hansa Karhumäki Karhu 48B Karhumäki Viri replica Klemm L25 Kokkola KO-04 Super Upstart-autogiro L-13n-10 Blanik Letov S.218 A Smolik Lockheed 18-07 Lodestar MiG-21bis, 2 aircraft MiG-21, 2 aircraft Mil Mi-4 Mil Mi-8 | Mahe Scout-ultralight Taivaankirppu replica PIK-3a Kanttikolmonen PIK-3c Kajava PIK-5b PIK-10 Moottoribaby PIK-11 Tumppu PIK-12 Gabriel PIK-16c Vasama PIK-20 Piper PA-28R-180 Cherokee Arrow Polikarpov UTI-4 ( I-16 UTI) PZL SM-1SZ helicopter Quickie Saab 35 Draken, 2 aircraft Saab 91D Safir Schulgleiter SG-38 SZD-9bis 1c Bocian SZD-10bis Czapla A Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle simulator Valmet Tuuli III (not on display) Valmet Vihuri forward part of fuselage VL Pyry II VL Sääski II VL Tuisku VL Viima II W.W.S.1 Salamandra Wassmer WA-54 Atlantic |
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A complete list can be found at the museum's web page.

