Finnish Aviation Museum

The Finnish Aviation Museum is a museum specialised in aircraft, located in Vantaa, Finland.

History

The museum was founded on 4 December 1969 by "Ilmailumuseoyhdistys ry". The museum was placed next to the Helsinki-Vantaa Airport but received its own facilities in 1980. The museum has constantly expanded and today has an office wing, research rooms, aviation library, archive, and an auditorium for 200 people.

Exhibition

The museum displays some 7,000 objects, and the library has about 16,000 books and 160,000 aviation-related magazines. Furthermore, the museum has a large collection of flight instruction and service books. There are also some 78,000 photographs, negatives and dia pictures. The archive spans some 1,300 shelf metres.

The whole collection comprises some 80 aircraft, of who 22 are glider aircraft. The following list are some of the more remarkable ones that the museum has:

A complete list can be found at the [http://www.suomenilmailumuseo.fi/en/planes.html museum's web page] .

External links

* [http://www.suomenilmailumuseo.fi/en/index.html The Finnish Aviation Museum]