| Finnish Aviation Museum | |
| Native Name: | Finnish: Suomen Ilmailumuseo Swedish: Finlands flygmuseum |
| Map Type: | Finland |
| Coordinates: | 60.3042°N 81.652°W |
| Established: | 4 December 1969 |
| Location: | Aviapolis Veromies, Vantaa, Finland |
| Type: | Aviation museum |
| Collection: | 9,600 objects 16,000 books 78,000 photographs |
| Owner: | Finnish Aviation Museum Foundation |
| Publictransit: | Airport trains I & P Local and regional bus routes |
The Finnish Aviation Museum (Finnish: Suomen ilmailumuseo, Swedish: Finlands flygmuseum) is a museum specialising in aircraft, located near Helsinki Airport in Veromies, Vantaa, Finland.
The Aviation Museum Society (Finnish: Ilmailumuseoyhdistys ry) was founded on 4 December 1969. Opened in 1972, the museum was initially located in the basement of the Helsinki Airport terminal but received its own facilities in 1981.[1] The museum has constantly expanded and today has an office wing, research rooms, aviation library, archive, and an auditorium for 200 people.
Currently the museum is owned by the Finnish Aviation Museum Foundation (Finnish: Suomen Ilmailumuseosäätiö), founded in 1996.
The museum displays some 9,600 items, and the library has over 16,000 books[2] 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 slides. The archive spans some 1,800 shelf metres.[3]
The whole collection comprises some 80 aircraft, of which 22 are gliders. The following is a list of some of the more noteworthy aircraft:
museum's web page.