The Aviation Museum of Central Finland is an aviation museum located near Jyväskylä Airport

Jyväskylä Airport

On August 2, 2010, Finncomm Airlines announced it will stop its service between Helsinki and Jyväskylä on August 16, 2010. However the break was very short as Finnair and Finncomm reached an agreement on September 2010 that Finncomm will take over several Finnair's domestic routes...

 in Tikkakoski

Tikkakoski

Tikkakoski is a neighbourhood of Jyväskylä, Finland, about north of the city centre. It has a population of 6,000.The Jyväskylä Airport, Aviation Museum of Central Finland, and a Finnish Air Force base, with the FAF Headquarters, and the Finnish Air Force Academy are all located in...

, Jyväskylä

Jyväskylä

Jyväskylä is the capital of Central Finland and the largest city on the Finnish Lakeland, north-east of Tampere and north of Helsinki, on northern coast of lake Päijänne. The city has been continuously one of the most rapidly growing cities in Finland since World War II. The city is surrounded...

, Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

. The museum exhibits the aviation history of Finland, from the early 1900s until today.
The exhibition consists of aircraft, engines and aircrew equipment which has been used by the Finnish Air Force

Finnish Air Force

The Finnish Air Force is one of the branches of the Finnish Defence Forces. Its peacetime tasks are airspace surveillance, identification flights, and production of readiness formations for wartime conditions...

. The equipment of the Air Force Signals Museum has its own section. A large collection of scale models gives a wider perspective to the whole field of aviation.

The museum is visited annually by some 25,000 persons.

Aircraft

The following aircraft are a selection of the collection. More aircraft are being stored elsewehere, waiting for restoration.

• Avro 504K
• Bell P-39 Airacobra
• Brewster Buffalo
  Brewster Buffalo
  The Brewster F2A Buffalo was an American fighter aircraft which saw limited service early in World War II. Though the Buffalo won a competition against the Grumman F4F Wildcat in 1939 to become the US Navy's first monoplane fighter aircraft, it turned out to be a big disappointment...
  
  
• Bristol Blenheim
  Bristol Blenheim
  The Bristol Blenheim was a British light bomber aircraft designed and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company that was used extensively in the early days of the Second World War. It was adapted as an interim long-range and night fighter, pending the availability of the Beaufighter...
  
  
• De Havilland D.H.60X Moth
• De Havilland D.H. 115 Vampire Trainer T.Mk.55
• Douglas DC-3
  Douglas DC-3
  The Douglas DC-3 is an American fixed-wing propeller-driven aircraft whose speed and range revolutionized air transport in the 1930s and 1940s. Its lasting impact on the airline industry and World War II makes it one of the most significant transport aircraft ever made...
  
   i.e. C-47
• Focke-Wulf Fw 44 J Stieglitz
• Fokker D.XXI
  Fokker D.XXI
  -See also:-References:NotesBibliography* De Jong, Peter. Le Fokker D.21 . Outreau, France: Éditions Lela Presse, 2005. ISBN 2-914017-26-X....
  
  
• Folland Gnat Mk.1
• Fouga CM170 Magister
  Fouga Magister
  The Fouga Magister is a 1950s French two-seat jet trainer. The related CM.175 Zéphyr was a carrier-capable version for the French Navy....
  
  
• Gourdou-Lesseurre B.3
• Ilyushin Il-28
  Ilyushin Il-28
  The Ilyushin Il-28 is a jet bomber aircraft of the immediate postwar period that was originally manufactured for the Soviet Air Force. It was the USSR's first such aircraft to enter large-scale production. It was also licence-built in China as the Harbin H-5. Total production in the USSR was 6,316...
  
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• Martinsyde F.4 Buzzard
• Bf 109G-6Y
  Messerschmitt Bf 109
  The Messerschmitt Bf 109, often called Me 109, was a German World War II fighter aircraft designed by Willy Messerschmitt and Robert Lusser during the early to mid 1930s...
  
   167271
  Messerschmitt Bf 109 Survivors
  The Messerschmitt Bf 109 was a German World War II fighter aircraft. It was one of the first true modern fighters of the era, including such features as an all-metal monocoque construction, a closed canopy, and retractable landing gear...
  
   - MT-507
• Mignet HM-14 Pou du Ciel Taivaankirppu
• MiG-15 UTI (twin-seated)
• MiG-21 F
• MiG-21 UTI (twin-seated)
• Mil Mi-1
  Mil Mi-1
  The Mil Mi-1 The Mil Mi-1 The Mil Mi-1 ( (USAF/DoD reporting name "Type 32", NATO reporting name "Hare") was a Soviet three- or four-seat light utility helicopter. It was the first Soviet helicopter to enter serial production. It is powered by one 575 hp Ivchenko AI-26V radial. It entered...
  
  
• Mil Mi-4
  Mil Mi-4
  The Mil Mi-4 was a Soviet transport helicopter that served in both military and civilian roles.-Design and development:...
  
  
• Morane-Saulnier MS 50C
• Saab 91D Safir
• Thulin typ D replika
• Tiira
• Valmet Vihuri II
  Valmet Vihuri
  |-Notes:This aircraft is not to be confused with the Finnish fast bomber variant of De Havilland Mosquito, with DB 605 engines, a project which never materialized. In 1943 the FiAF HQ asked VL if it would be possible to build a copy of the Mosquito with DB605 engines. Two crashed British aircraft...
  
  
• VL Humu
  VL Humu
  VL Humu was a Finnish fighter aircraft, designed by the State Aircraft Factory in 1944. The Humu was based on the American Brewster F2A design...
  
  
• VL Pyörremyrsky
  VL Pyörremyrsky
  -Bibliography:* Green, William. War Planes of the Second World War, Fighters, Volume One. London: Macdonald & Co. Ltd., 1960. ISBN 0-356-01445-2.-External links:* Pictures of the VL Pyörremyrsky:...
  
  
• VL Pyry

Sources

• Heinonen, Timo and Kakko, Tapio: Keski-Suomen ilmailumuseo, Tikkakoski, Keski-Suomen ilmailumuseo, Tikkakoski, 1989, ISBN 952-90-092-5-9

External links

• The museum's homepage