Finnish Air Force Museum — Local services in Jyväskylä sub-region

A gem of an aviation museum tucked away in Central Finland. The Finnish Air Force is fairly unusual in that it has operated French, British, German, American, Swedish and Soviet aircraft (many at the same time) and retained some lovely example airframes of each. Tikkakoski also boasts some unique Finnish airframes, the only fully intact Bristol Blenheim in the work, and a Brewster fighter retrieved from a Russian lake. The main hangar is wonderfully set up for optimum viewing angles of all airframes, with an overhead walkway proving most useful indeed.

All exhibits in the museum are in both Finnish and English, albeit some English translations are on sheets/leaflets to the side of some exhibits. The staff are courteous and helpful and the cafe/giftshop is small but charming. They stock aviation-themed sauna thermometers which must be the most Finnish thing ever. Overall my visit lasted around 2 - 2 1/2 hours.

Getting to the museum isn't terribly easy without a car, but it is doable. I flew to Jyväskylä having pre-booked a taxi on the Jytaksi app to the museum and then took a bus from a nearby bus stop to Jyväskylä city centre afterwards. With some pre-planning it's not that hard. I combined this with a trip to Helsinki (a 3h 15min train ride away).

Should you be planning a trip to Central Finland I highly recommend visiting Tikkakoski and enjoying this...

Cool place...fun stuff..have around 30 fighter planes and in couple of then yu can actually go inside and have an experience inside the cockpit of fighter jet. One can easily spend 2 hrs here, so plan accordingly. The best part is the museum tells history of foghter planes in finland from 1910s to now and the engines too. So, you can also have a closer look on engines and how they evolved with time as well as planes and their evolution with time. Most of the fighter planes had donated from finnish air force and. You can also buy soveniers too. The place have a tiny cafeteria, where yu can get coffee and some...

The museum overall is nicely setup with signage being mostly in English and Finnish. The museum has a nice collection of aircraft from the start of the Finnish Air Force, to the more recent era.

It was nice to see a wide array of aircraft in Finnish colors, especially the world's only Brewster Buffalo and a Hawker Hurricane. I think that the overall pricing of the museum is reasonable for what you get, and I love the fact that they have balconies that allow you to overlook most of the aircraft. The one major downside to the museum is the terrible indoor lighting that casts a nasty orange tint on...