Near the Jyväskylä airport at Tikkakoski is the Suomen Ilmavoimamuseo,
the
museum of the Finnish Air Force.
With photographs (all taken on the Lumix GF1):
cc-by-sa on
everything.
It's based in an old hangar.
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Breguet 14 A2, bought after the Finnish Civil War.
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Tiira (a private project from the 1970s)
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Bristol Blenheim, Mk IV. To be fair to the Finns, they'd been using
the blue swastika since 1918; it was the personal good-luck emblem of
the Swedish Count Eric von Rosen who gave them their second aircraft.
Well, the white circle wasn't - that happened when they painted out
the advertisement for the Thulin Air Academy that surrounded it on the
Thulin Typ D he'd donated to them.
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VL Myrsky II restoration project. Some way
to go.
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Inside the cockpit of a MiG-21 ("at own risk"). Don't ask me exactly
which variant; it wasn't labelled and only the cockpit section was
present. It's pretty cramped and I wouldn't have been able to fly one,
but comfortable even so.
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Saab Draken.
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And a detached cockpit section for that too. This one I did fit quite
comfortably (clearly Swedish pilots are allowed to be a bit taller).
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Various air-to-air weapons.
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Soviet-era folding-fin aerial rocket pod.
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MiG-21F.
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MiG-19.
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An array of air-to-air rounds.
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Fouga Magister, used for flying and air-to-air gunnery training.
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Saab 91D Safir (single-engine trainer).
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Folland Gnat.
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de Havilland Vampire.
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Mil Mi-4.
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Mil Mi-1.
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Valmet Vihuri II (fighter trainer, used in the 1950s).
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A variety of ejection seats.
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Instrument flight simulator, bought from Electronic Control
Engineering Ltd; didn't really work.
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VL Pyörremyrsky: a home-grown fighter for WWII, basically a Bf-109G
copy in wood. The war ended before production could start.
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And the actual Bf-109G.
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A detour into radar and radio systems.
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And the obligatory larger bits.
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Fokker D.XXI.
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Douglas DC-3.
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Hurricane Mk I.
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Brewster Model 239, post-crash.
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Focke-Wulf Fw 44 J Stieglitz.
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de Havilland DH.60X Moth, with floats.
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Martinsyde F.4 Buzzard, with skis.
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An array of engines.
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Gourdou-Leseurre B.3.
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Couldn't find a label for this one, but I'm pretty sure it's an
Ilyushin Il-28, probably the reconnaissance variant.
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Air-to-air missiles for the Draken.
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Moving outside, more aircraft: another Mi-4.
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And a MiG-19 in unique colour scheme.
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Two-seater Draken. (Maybe some sort of infra-red gear on top of the
canopy?)
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MiG-21bis.
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Anonymous anti-aircraft gun.
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MiG-21UM.
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Another Folland Gnat.
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And finally on the other side of the car park a whole bunch of
unlabelled air-search and missile-guidance radars.
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I'd definitely recommend this museum if you're any sort of aviation
enthusiast; I could have done with more labelling in English, but hey,
it's their country not mine.
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