World aviation museum and gate guard map

[perttime]

Shopping center Tuulonen, near Hämeenlinna Finland, has currently four former Finnish Air Force aircraft:
- Douglas DC-2 (Finnish military code DO-1) "Hanssin Jukka" in a display "hangar"
- Focke-Wulf FW 44 Stieglitz (SZ-18) suspended from the ceiling
- MiG-21 Bis (MG-124) outside
- Saab 35FS Draken (DK-249) outside

https://www.google.fi/maps/place/Kauppakeskus+Tuulonen/@61.106108,24.8622953,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x468e4f5b7d45ae87:0x966ead903027c7c0!8m2!3d61.106108!4d24.864484

61°06'22.0"N 24°51'54.3"E

Finnish Aviation Museum Society bilingual page on the location:
http://www.ilmailumuseot.fi/tuotteet.html?id=33435/

[perttime]

Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6 (MT-452) in a display cabinet at Utti, Finland.
https://www.google.fi/maps/place/60%C2%B053'34.6%22N+26%C2%B054'37.8%22E/@60.8933887,26.9100123,407m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d60.8929444!4d26.9105

60°53'34.6"N 26°54'37.8"E

(and an Antonov An-2 at the gas station next door)

Utti was one of Finnish main bases during WWII, and has a lot of other aviation history, too, so there is a variety of related memorials etc. in the area. Now Finnish special forces are trained there, so there are some restrictions but access to the display is OK.

A page with some old and new photos: http://ilmakilta.info/mersu.php



Video, stills and sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dglpJtkz6SA

[reddfoxx]

Beautiful Finnish finds, thanks!  I will add them today.

The map now has more than 1200 sites: 925 museums, 256 gate guards, 48 other aviation sites such as memorials, factory tours, etc.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YglU7IxTI_xdJtGCPwljGoFWn-8&usp=sharing

[Nick]

What are your thoughts on air crash memorials?

There's a hillside in South Wales with the remains of a Wellington bomber that crashed in 1942.




Location   51°52'15.5"N 3°21'51.6"W     51.870982, -3.364334

[Nick]

And another one I've seen. RAF Charterhall in Scotland was home to Richard Hillary who wrote The Last Enemy.
Location of memorial
55°42'47.4"N 2°23'30.6"W

55.713155, -2.391838

[Nick]

And one we were talking about at work today - the Bristol Freighter Hotel!
http://www.waitomomotel.co.nz/accommodation.htm#plane
http://www.woodlynpark.co.nz/


Location
38°15'13.3"S 175°07'07.1"E

-38.253689, 175.118647

[perttime]

Some Drakens in Finland...

- Saab 35FS Draken (DK-237) near the canteen of the Satakunta Wing in Pirkkala. You need to walk past the gate to get close enough. Foreigners might want to be careful about entering.
https://www.google.fi/maps/place/Satakunta+Air+Command/@61.4076089,23.6243784,203m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x468f21c9168da49d:0x49b0a9ae4ed89f83!8m2!3d61.4085106!4d23.6284029
61°24'27.3"N 23°37'32.8"E

- Saab 35BS Draken (DK-208) on a pole at a roundabout near Turku airport
https://goo.gl/maps/eBGCA1LE86N2
60°30'22.1"N 22°18'03.2"E

- Saab 35S Draken (DK-211) as a gate guardian at the Lapland Wing in Rovaniemi
https://www.google.fi/maps/place/66%C2%B034'03.7%22N+25%C2%B048'22.9%22E/@66.5676951,25.8056254,105m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d66.5676944!4d25.8063611
66°34'03.7"N 25°48'22.9"E

- Saab 35S Draken (DK-201) mounted in the village of Halli where the Air Force used to have its Technical School
https://goo.gl/maps/ny8MzwK3ogr
61°51'38.5"N 24°49'40.4"E

- Saab 35S Draken (DK-203) mounted at Kittilä airport
https://goo.gl/maps/HUTDwV6b1J12
67°41'39.7"N 24°51'50.5"E

- Saab 35S Draken (DK-219) mounted at Pudasjärvi airfield
https://www.google.fi/maps/place/65%C2%B023'54.6%22N+26%C2%B057'45.0%22E/@65.3985022,26.9603113,327m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d65.3985!4d26.9625
65°23'54.6"N 26°57'45.0"E (approx. Google Earth images are fuzzy)



Photo from http://www.jetphotos.net/photo/501673

[reddfoxx]

Nick: I have some memorials on there, and air crash memorials seem pertinent, at least for the "other aviation sites" part of the list.  Maybe someday I can set up a map layer just for crashes.  For now, you might be interested in the Aviation Wrecks and Relics page on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/293701250991601/


Perttime: thanks for all the hints.  And special thanks for all the location info- makes things so much easier for me!  I'm glad to see Finland is working so hard to preserve planes, enclosing them when they can.

[upnorth]

There is a MiG-15 in the Czech village of Jilem:  49.175057, 15.264242

There is also a MiG-19 in the village of Horní Němčí: 48.935360, 17.622617

A MiG-23 is preserved at Planá: 48.951902, 14.452668

The Czech air base at Čáslav has a MiG-21 just inside the main gate: 49.938333, 15.398621

Just inside the main gate at the base at Naměšt' nad Oslavou are a MiG-15 and L-29 Delfin: 49.175059, 16.120914

[kitnut617]

Do you have the Bristol Freighter on a gate guard stand at Yellowknife Airport? 

http://s200.photobucket.com/user/kitnut617/media/Bristol%20Freighter%20Mk%2031/triptoYellowknife016.jpg.html

Down in Lethbridge there's a T-33 and I think also there's a Harvard.

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/44239/permanently_grounded.jpg


Then there's the Reynolds Museum in Wetaskawin

http://www.rvwest.com/images/uploads/museum_from_the_air.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uT3tRPiDWBg/UuWLEa88nxI/AAAAAAAAM3A/A5L5t9byh90/s1600/DSCN2486.JPG

all in Alberta

[Nick]

There is a Westland WS-51 Dragonfly HR.5 WG751 on display at the Historic Dockyard, Chatham. I have memories of seeing this 15 years ago and it is an odd looking bird!

Just to the left of the Royal Engineers Museum on the River Medway. Visible between HMS Gannet and HMS Ocelot!

[perttime]

There is a Westland WS-51 Dragonfly HR.5 WG751 on display at the Historic Dockyard, Chatham. I have memories of seeing this 15 years ago and it is an odd looking bird!

Just to the left of the Royal Engineers Museum on the River Medway. Visible between HMS Gannet and HMS Ocelot!

Cannot spot it on Google Earth - which is no evidence. For all I know it is still there. There's photos of it in other parts of the Chatham Historic Dockyard, so perhaps it has been moved around as necessary?

http://www.helis.com/database/cn/37129/

[Nick]

That's odd! It is visible using the GE view in the Museum mapping but as you point out, not on current GE.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Dragonfly gets moved around the site a bit.

[reddfoxx]

I'll check all these out tomorrow and add what I can find.  There are often issues with Google Earth, especially finding something as small as a Dragonfly (and if it's in any kind of camo.)

[reddfoxx]

I see the Dragonfly, found it by its shadow.  Thanks for that and all the detailed information over the past few days.