OH-LCD
This post is part of a series named “Europe 2017” where I share photos from my adventures in Europe during the summer 2017.
When I attended the Kaivopuisto Air Show in early June last year, I learned about the existence of the Finnish Aviation Museum. It took me a month and a half, but eventually I found a free day to go check it out.
The museum itself is packed with all sorts of aircraft on static display. While they were interesting (and I certainly took plenty of photos of them), they aren’t what this post is about. This post is about Lokki—a retired 
DC-3 (registration OH-LCD) on display outside of the museum.
As luck would have it, the folks from the DC Association were there that day trying to see if they could start up Lokki’s engines—after 12 years of inactivity. After a lot of preparation, they managed to start them!
Without further ado, here are a few photos of Lokki (more photos can be found in the gallery).
Aero OY was the original name of Finnair:
One of the mechanics working on the left engine:
One of the people from the DC Association, seeing that I was obviously excited about the plane, asked me if I’d like to climb inside. I said yes, of course.
The inside was pretty bare-bones (which is to be expected of a static display that’s normally closed to public). I took a couple of photos inside, but most weren’t that interesting.
Throttle quadrant (note: most of the instrument panel was removed long ago):
It runs!
The livery is pretty simple—polished aluminum with dark blue lettering and a stripe:
I’m not really sure why they wanted to see if they could start the engines, but I’m happy that it worked out. Radial engines just have a unique roar to them.
Anyway, that’s it about Lokki. Hopefully I’ll get around to post processing the photos from the museum itself soon.