Douglas DC-2 (Похьойнен)

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The Douglas DC-1 was prototype of a twin-engine passenger transport aircraft which made its maiden flight in 1933. A 14-seat DC-2 was a bigger derivate from the DC-1 and the DC-2 went to the serial production in 1934. During the Winter War a Swedish count Carl Gustav von Rosen bought one Douglas DC-2 (PH-AKH, De Haan) from KLM by using money of his mothers cousin John Henry Sager. Two Koolhoven F.K.52 aircraft belong to the contract as free gifts. The aircraft converted to a bomber. It made only one sortie during the Winter War. After that, the DO-1 converted to a transport aircraft. It served the Finnish Air Force until 1955. The aircraft was sold to civilian use and it served as cafeteria in the Centre of Hämeenlinna until it was sold to the Finnish Air Force Musem in 1981. The Air Force Academy Guild restored the aircraft 2010-2011. In 2015 the aircraft was put on the show in a display room at the Shopping Centre Tuulonen at Tuulos.

Aircraft code: DO-1