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    Airframe Family: Valtion Lentokonetehdas (VL) Viima
    Latest Model:Viima
    Last Military Serial:VI-3 FiAF
    Construction Number:VI-3
    Last Civil Registration:OH-VIG
    Compressed ID:Valtion Lentokonetehdas (VL) Viima...
    Latest Owner or Location:Flying Legends, Kortrijk Wevelgem Airport, Kortrijk, Vlaams Gewest

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    Dates

    Event

    1939

    Constructed as a Viima.

    1939

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Finnish Air Force with s/n VI-3.

    12 August 1972

    To Phillip Ashley Mann, Greenwich with new c/r G-BAAY.
    Operated with markings: Kayala

    1974


    Photographer: Peter M. Law
    Notes: 1974 photo at Sywell in the UK

    14 May 1976

    To Shipping and Airlines Ltd keeping c/r G-BAAY.

    22 July 1982

    To Michael William Stow keeping c/r G-BAAY.

    23 September 1982

    To Andrew Martin Stow keeping c/r G-BAAY.

    26 May 1983

    To PAUL Hinkley McConnell keeping c/r G-BAAY.

    1984


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: 1984 photo at Badminton, UK

    29 November 1989

    To Flying Legends with new c/r OO-EBL.

    To Flying Legends, Kortrijk Wevelgem Airport, Kortrijk, Vlaams Gewest.
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    To unknown owner with c/r OH-VIG.

    18 June 2016


    Photographer: Jan Martin
    Notes: At a rainy Airshow in Kuopio, Finland
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