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Finnish Aviation Museum

Finnish Aviation Museum preserves finnish aviation and national aerospace manufacture, including historic seaplanes, fighter jets and airliners.. Near Helsinki Airport, this museum holds commercial, sport and military aircraft that span the development of aviation in Finland. Its present exhibition halls are operating while a new museum is planned. Two principal exhibition hangars show aircraft alongside engines and other equipment. The museum has advised visitors of route restrictions associated with preparations for a future relocation. The aircraft listed here are selected holdings supported by the linked institutional sources, not a complete inventory; where a source documents collection ownership without specifying the current gallery location, the display status is deliberately left unknown.

Aviation MuseumApproximately 70 aircraft in exhibition halls; almost 80 aircraft in museum collection6 documented aircraft/exhibitsOpen Public
Museum-specific photograph associated with Finnish Aviation Museum
Convair 340, later upgraded to 440 Metropolitan standard, in Finnish Aviation Museum. This aircraft was purchased by Aero / Finnair Oy in 1953 and had the longest career of any Finnair aircraft when it was decommisioned in 1980. Serial number 73.MKFI · MKFI, Public Domain · Public domain
Museum story

The museum

Near Helsinki Airport, this museum holds commercial, sport and military aircraft that span the development of aviation in Finland. Its present exhibition halls are operating while a new museum is planned.

Finnish Aviation Museum preserves finnish aviation and national aerospace manufacture, including historic seaplanes, fighter jets and airliners.. Near Helsinki Airport, this museum holds commercial, sport and military aircraft that span the development of aviation in Finland. Its present exhibition halls are operating while a new museum is planned.

Two principal exhibition hangars show aircraft alongside engines and other equipment. The museum has advised visitors of route restrictions associated with preparations for a future relocation. The aircraft listed here are selected holdings supported by the linked institutional sources, not a complete inventory; where a source documents collection ownership without specifying the current gallery location, the display status is deliberately left unknown.

Collection character

What defines the collection

Finnish aviation and national aerospace manufacture, including historic seaplanes, fighter jets and airliners.

Collection focus: Civil aviation · Cold War · Indoor galleries · Military aviation · Second World War
Civil aviationCold WarIndoor galleriesMilitary aviationSecond World War
Visitor experience

What to expect

Two principal exhibition hangars show aircraft alongside engines and other equipment. The museum has advised visitors of route restrictions associated with preparations for a future relocation.

Collection guide

What the museum holds

Approximately 70 aircraft in exhibition halls; almost 80 aircraft in museum collection

The inventory below separates what the museum or its sources say the institution holds from the smaller set of aircraft histories already connected to the Air Archive.

6Documented records
0Recorded on display
0Air Archive links
3Research sources
Collection highlights6 cataloged entries
  • Convair CV-440 MetropolitanUnknown
  • Douglas DC-3A OH-VKBUnknown
  • Hansa-Brandenburg W.33 Hansa IL-2 seaplaneUnknown
  • PIK-series Finnish gliderUnknown
  • Saab 35 Draken DK-206Unknown
  • Valmet Viima training aircraftUnknown
Open full museum-listed inventory (6 entries)
AircraftStatusIdentity
Convair CV-440 MetropolitanUnknown—
Douglas DC-3A OH-VKBUnknown—
Hansa-Brandenburg W.33 Hansa IL-2 seaplaneUnknown—
PIK-series Finnish gliderUnknown—
Saab 35 Draken DK-206Unknown—
Valmet Viima training aircraftUnknown—
Museum collection records are source-backed; catalog inclusion does not by itself guarantee that an airframe is currently visible to visitors.
Research trail

Sources

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