Aviation Museum of South-Eastern Finland
- Aviation Museum of South-Eastern Finland
The Aviation Museum of South-Eastern Finland (Finnish: "Kaakkois-Suomen ilmailumuseo") is located at the airport in Lappeenranta. The museum is run by "Kaakkois-Suomen ilmailumuseoyhdistys ry".The museum has also been known as the Carelian and southern Carelian aviation museum.
The museum is housed in two covered halls and displays fighter aircraft and smaller objects from the Second World War and onwards.
Aircraft on display include:
* MiG-21BIS (MG-127),
* Saab 35 Draken (DK-213),
* Saab 91 Safir (OH-SFB), as well as
* Jorma Kettunen's Nieuport 17 replica (OH-U323).
In 2005 the museum also had a Hawker Hurricane (HC-452) on loan from the Aviation Museum of Central Finland.
Among the smaller objects on display is a radial engine from a Fokker C.X that sank in Lake Saimaa, engine and different parts from a Tupolev SB-2that went down in Ylämaa.
The museum is closed during winters.
External links
* [http://www.ekarjala.fi/museot/lappeenranta/etela_karjalan_ilmailumuseo.html The museum homepage]
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