Finnish 100 years of Independence Airshow

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Perhaps not surprising

F18 and Midnight Hawks to attend the show which will be an evening event

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This one is in the calendar, seems like a good opportunity to see a few new airframes for me.

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From the website;
The Finnish Aviation Museum has preliminarily reserved a 1930’s Junkers Ju 52/3m, operated by the Swiss JU-AIR, to be brought to the Kaivopuisto Air Show. Tickets are available for the ferry flights from Zürich to Helsinki via Berlin and Stockholm and back, as well as sightseeing flights in Helsinki. The historical flight will take place, if enough tickets are reserved beforehand.

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Border Guard Do228 and Super Puma to take part

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Saab 35c Draken added. Hoping this will be a good show, can't find any info on where crowd centre will be, tho....
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Finnair A350 AWB added

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Arctic Eagles prop display team added. Looks to be a Pitts/Extra combo team.
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Jakesplanes wrote:Arctic Eagles prop display team added. Looks to be a Pitts/Extra combo team.

They fly 3 biplanes - a Pitts, Christen Eagle and an Ultimate 300- kind of a biplane Extra, a hideous affair.
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st24 wrote:
Jakesplanes wrote:Arctic Eagles prop display team added. Looks to be a Pitts/Extra combo team.

They fly 3 biplanes - a Pitts, Christen Eagle and an Ultimate 300- kind of a biplane Extra, a hideous affair.

Thanks for the "Extra" information mate. More planes are always welcome no matter how hideous. We dont get a massive variety up here
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Jakesplanes wrote:
st24 wrote:
Jakesplanes wrote:Arctic Eagles prop display team added. Looks to be a Pitts/Extra combo team.

They fly 3 biplanes - a Pitts, Christen Eagle and an Ultimate 300- kind of a biplane Extra, a hideous affair.

Thanks for the "Extra" information mate. More planes are always welcome no matter how hideous. We dont get a massive variety up here


Absolutely! The team fly a few formations and then the Ultimate does a solo piece (well that did in 2015!)

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RAF Typhoon and the Red Arrows confirmed, Super Hornet rumored as the manufacturers hunt for the HX contract..
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3x Swedish Saab Gripen confirmed.
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2x Fouga Magister flying, ex Finnish Air Force
Thats a pretty good line up as is!
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Super Hornet E's booked. Report says from Boeing so not sure if they'll come from an active squadron or they will be factory demo models. Plural, not sure how many coming, im assuming two!
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finnair DC-3 added. ridealongs and membership available on the link http://www.dc-ry.fi/
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VL Viima added. Bet you haven't seen one of those before....
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Where is that superbly painted Finnish Hurricane when you need it!

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Jakesplanes wrote:VL Viima added. Bet you haven't seen one of those before....

Theyre prerty rare, recall one knocking around the UK for a while, it played the baddy in a few WW1 films as,it looked a bit "foreign"..
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NoRRA Airlines ATR added to the flying
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Weather forecast is looking nice for Kaivopuisto, can't wait for this!
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Had a great time at this show. Some displays even further away than expected, particularly the ATR and the Yak may as well not showed up, but the day was STERLING. what made it great was to see the biggest crowd in Finland this year (well over 100,000) all get stoked on aviation. And full marks to the RAF for supporting it so well, the Tiffy pulled the display of the day, and the Red Arrows won Helsinkis hearts with their Tribute formation.

If anyone is interested, pictures to be found here:


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Great pictures Jakesplanes :clap:
I was there too, indeed a very enjoyable show, with great performers and what a awesome weather :cool: .
Very happy to see that “Jolly Rogers" F/A-18F !

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