A tour of the Finnish Aviation Museum in Tikkakoski

[planemaker]

Hi there. A week ago I visited the Central Finnish Aviation Museum (Keskisuomen Ilmailumuseo) in Tikkakoski near Jyväskylä. Here are some nice pics I took of the aircraft there. (These are all my own photos.)
Sorry for the amount of photos, but you have to consider they where taken by an airplane geek.
Note: I haven't added text to all the photos since that would take so much time.
Hope you enjoy!


MiG-21Bis walkaround, inside out:














Forget recessed rivets!








Now we're talking weathering!!!






















Front landing gear bay:








Cockpit and ejectionseat:
































Saab 35C Draken (two seater) walkaround and Saab 35S Draken cockpit (single seater):

















































Insine of where the ram air turbine sits.












Cockpit of the Saab 35S Draken (single seater)






































Ok, that's just the beginning. Here comes a lot more!

MiG-21UM




Folland Gnat F.1






Bristol Blenheim Mk.IV


























MiG-21F
















Ilyushin Il-28


MiG-15 UTI






Fouga Magister
































Saab Safir cockpit










Folland Gnat F.1 GN-101 "Kreivi von Rosen"








































D.H. Vampire T.55




































VL Vihuri






VL Pyörremyrsky
































Messerschmitt Bf-109 G-6 "Mersu"






















Fokker D.XXI 3:rd series. (Partial replica)
















Hawker Hurricane Mk.I














Not a bad resault of spray guns in those days!




































Brewster Buffalo model 239. Did anyone say chipping?






























































































That's it folks! BUT there is A LOT more to see here, I just showed you my favorite parts.

Thanks for watching!

If you are interested here is the museums website: http://www.airforcemuseum.fi/

[Willem]

Lovely pics. Thanks for sharing them.

[Opapapa]

Holy crap! That's some beautiful stuff in there. For the last five years I've been telling my girlfriend that we have to visit there but... I still have holidays left so now I know what I'm going to do in couple of weeks time!!

Btw. Great picture from that Finnish armor seat!! I'm about to scratch build one for my 1/32 Special hobby Brewster. It's quite visible but they decided to leave it out from the kit... among other things...

Kiitos Sebastian, kun jaoit nämä!!

Olli

[rodrant]

Nice photos and what a wonderful museum must be ...

thank you for all the great references , a lot of eye candy here !

[planemaker]

Thanks guys!

[JediBoer]

Great photos mate! Thanks for sharing!

[rwsmith14]

Great pictures ! !!

[SteveW]

Great photos Sebastian, thanks for sharing. I will have to put that on my to do list and persuade SWMBO we need to visit Finland.

[planemaker]

Thank you!

[wally]

Thanks for sharing the pictures. I have plan to build a collection of WWII fighters and bombers in Finland Markings and this pictures will help me quite a lot.