{"id":31936856,"date":"2026-11-09T11:32:20","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T10:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/vl-myrsky-finnish-fighter-wooden-wing-restoration-my-14\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T11:32:45","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T10:32:45","slug":"vl-myrsky-finnish-fighter-wooden-wing-restoration-my-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/vl-myrsky-finnish-fighter-wooden-wing-restoration-my-14\/","title":{"rendered":"VL Myrsky: Finland\u2019s Only Home-Built Production Fighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\r\n\r\n<style>\r\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid 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By late morning the job was done, and that afternoon the aircraft was lowered onto its landing gear. VL Myrsky MY-14 was standing on its own wheels again.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The Myrsky (&ldquo;Storm&rdquo;) is the only fighter ever designed and built in Finland to reach series production. It was born out of hard lessons, built from whatever materials a country at war could find, and taming it cost the lives of test pilots. Its story is less about victories than about a small nation trying to arm itself.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f4f6f9;border:1px solid #e2e7ee;padding:18px 22px;margin:22px 0 26px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:700;color:#0d1117\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:18px\"><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Aircraft:<\/strong> VL Myrsky (&ldquo;Storm&rdquo;), single-seat fighter<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Builder:<\/strong> Valtion lentokonetehdas (State Aircraft Factory), Finland<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>First flight:<\/strong> 23 December 1941<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Built:<\/strong> 51: one prototype, three Myrsky I, 47 Myrsky II<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Engine:<\/strong> Pratt &amp; Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp, 1,065 hp<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Armament:<\/strong> Four 12.7 mm machine guns; two 100 kg bombs<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Service:<\/strong> Reconnaissance squadrons from summer 1944; last flight February 1948<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Survivor:<\/strong> MY-14 under restoration at the Finnish Air Force Museum, Tikkakoski<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A fighter nobody would sell<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The idea came before the Winter War. Finland had learned that in an arms race, a small country struggles to buy top-quality fighters without paying a heavy political price. In early 1939 the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/finnish-air-force\/\">Finnish Air Force<\/a> asked the State Aircraft Factory, Valtion lentokonetehdas (VL), for proposals for a home-grown fighter, and in June 1939 the Ministry of Defence ordered one.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The preliminary design came from a trio of engineers: Arvo Ylinen, Martti Vainio on aerodynamics and Torsti Verkkola on structures. Edward Wegelius later took over the design department. Their fighter was a compact low-wing monoplane with a wide undercarriage and a 14-cylinder radial engine.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/11\/vl-myrsky-ii-low-pass-finnish-air-force.jpg\" alt=\"A Finnish Air Force VL Myrsky II fighter making a low pass over an airfield in wartime markings\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A VL Myrsky II of the Finnish Air Force in wartime markings makes a low pass over an airfield. Photo: unknown author \/ public domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Nothing about it was easy to source. Duralumin was scarce, so the wings were made of plywood, and the metal-framed fuselage was skinned with fabric and plywood. The planned Bristol Taurus engine was unavailable because of the war, so VL chose the Pratt &amp; Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp &mdash; and Finland had to buy those engines from German stocks of war booty.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Tamed at a terrible price<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The prototype first flew on 23 December 1941. It worked, but it was too heavy. Three pre-production aircraft followed, and the high-speed tests went badly wrong. All three were destroyed in testing, two of them to aeroelastic flutter, a phenomenon engineers barely understood at the time. Two test pilots were killed and a third was seriously injured.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 8px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OWRt5Lo5J_Q\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 24px\">Ed Nash&rsquo;s Military Matters tells the story of the VL Myrsky, Finland&rsquo;s home-built fighter.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>It took almost a year to cure the flutter. Series production of the Myrsky II began in autumn 1942. In the end, 51 were built: one prototype, three pre-production Myrsky Is and 47 Myrsky IIs. A Myrsky III was ordered in 1943, but none was completed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>By the time the Myrsky was ready for service, Finland was also flying the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/messerschmitt-bf-109\/\">Messerschmitt Bf 109G<\/a>, delivered from Germany from 1943. The Myrsky went instead to reconnaissance squadrons, where it took over from ageing <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/fokker-d-xxi\/\">Fokker D.XXIs<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><div><em>&ldquo;An aircraft that was originally built in exceptional circumstances has recently been restored under a whole new set of exceptional circumstances.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Reino Myllym&auml;ki<\/strong> &mdash; Spokesperson, VL Myrsky II restoration project, Patria Magazine, 2021<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Brief war, long winter<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Reconnaissance Squadron 12 received its first Myrskys in summer 1944, and 30 had reached Squadrons 12 and 16 by the end of the Continuation War in September. Fifteen of them flew 68 missions. In two fights they damaged two Soviet fighters; in another encounter with Yak-7s, nobody was hit. On 3 September 1944, six Myrskys flew a bombing mission.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/11\/vl-myrsky-ii-in-flight-postwar-roundels.jpg\" alt=\"A VL Myrsky II fighter in flight with postwar Finnish roundels on its wings and fuselage\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A Myrsky II in flight with the roundels Finland adopted after the war. The type flew until February 1948. Photo: unknown author \/ public domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Pilots liked it. It had a well-designed cockpit, good handling in the air and on the ground, and it was the Finnish Air Force&rsquo;s second-fastest aircraft after the Bf 109G, fast and agile enough to dogfight contemporary Soviet fighters.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>But during the Lapland War of 1944&ndash;45, flying reconnaissance in the far north, its wooden construction met the Arctic winter. The wartime substitute glue used on the wooden parts could not cope with rain, frost and damp, and glued seams came apart, sometimes with disastrous results.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/11\/vl-myrsky-ii-restoration-frame-finnish-aviation-museum-2018.jpg\" alt=\"The steel-tube fuselage frame and radial engine of the VL Myrsky II restoration project on display in a museum hall in 2018\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The Myrsky II restoration project on display in 2018, showing the bare fuselage frame and radial engine before re-skinning. Photo: Flyernzl \/ CC BY-SA 4.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Grounded and scrapped<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Ten Myrskys were lost in accidents between 1943 and 1947, and four pilots died. Operations ended in May 1947 after a fatal crash, and the last Myrsky flight took place in February 1948. The design was not wasted: its aerodynamics were reused in the VL Py&ouml;rremyrsky fighter prototype and the Valmet Vihuri trainer.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The fighters themselves were scrapped. Only three fuselages and some parts survived. In 2013, the Aviation Museum Society Finland, the Finnish Air Force Museum and the Finnish Aviation Museum began rebuilding one of them, MY-14, into a complete museum aircraft, with Patria and Sinituote as main supporters.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 8px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7xEC7nhunzY\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 24px\">A detailed look at the VL Myrsky restoration workshop in June 2018.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A storm returns<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Volunteers of the Aviation Museum Society&rsquo;s Tuesday Club rebuilt wings, flaps and cowlings by hand at Vantaa, while museum conservators at <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/tikkakoski\/\">Tikkakoski<\/a> rebuilt the fuselage. The pandemic slowed them down, and the completion date slipped more than once.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>On 4 May 2026, the wing and fuselage were finally joined and MY-14 was set on its landing gear in roughly the place where it will be displayed. The museum said the final restoration tasks could now begin, along with planning for the unveiling.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #d32f2f;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><div><em>&ldquo;This day, 4 May 2026, marked a historic milestone in the more than 12-year continuation of the VL Myrsky II restoration project.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Reino Myllym&auml;ki<\/strong> &mdash; Finnish Aviation Museums blog, 5 May 2026<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The Myrsky never changed the course of a war. But when it goes on display, Finland will again be able to see the one fighter it built entirely for itself, and the price it paid to do so.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><em>Sources: Wikipedia (VL Myrsky), Finnish Aviation Museums blog, Patria Magazine, Key Aero<\/em><\/p>\r\n<!-- mfsh:bottom -->\r\n\r\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-trigger mfsh-bottom\" data-mfsh-placement=\"bottom\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><svg><use href=\"#mfsh-i-share\"\/><\/svg>Share this story<\/button>\r\n\r\n<!-- \/mfsh:bottom -->\r\n\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>What was the VL Myrsky?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The VL Myrsky (&ldquo;Storm&rdquo;) was a Finnish single-seat fighter built by the State Aircraft Factory, Valtion lentokonetehdas. It first flew on 23 December 1941 and is the only fighter entirely designed and built in Finland to reach series production. It served from 1944 until 1948.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How many VL Myrsky fighters were built?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Fifty-one VL Myrskys were built: one prototype, three pre-production Myrsky Is and 47 series-production Myrsky IIs. A further Myrsky III version was ordered in 1943, but none was completed. All three pre-production aircraft were destroyed during flight testing.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Why was the VL Myrsky made of wood?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Finland could not obtain enough duralumin during the war, so the VL Myrsky was built with plywood wings and a metal-framed fuselage skinned in fabric and plywood. The wartime substitute glue later failed in rain, frost and damp, which caused serious structural problems in service.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Did the VL Myrsky see combat?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes, briefly. Myrskys of Reconnaissance Squadrons 12 and 16 flew 68 missions in the last weeks of the Continuation War in 1944, damaging two Soviet fighters, and six took part in a bombing mission on 3 September 1944. They then flew reconnaissance during the Lapland War.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What happened to the VL Myrsky fighters?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Ten VL Myrskys were lost in accidents between 1943 and 1947, killing four pilots. Operations ended in May 1947 after a fatal crash, the last flight took place in February 1948, and the aircraft were scrapped. Only three fuselages and some parts survived.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Can you see a VL Myrsky today?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">A VL Myrsky II, MY-14, has been under restoration since 2013 by the Aviation Museum Society Finland, the Finnish Air Force Museum and the Finnish Aviation Museum. On 4 May 2026 its wing and fuselage were joined at the Finnish Air Force Museum in Tikkakoski, where it will be displayed.<\/div><\/details><\/div><\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"What was the VL Myrsky?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"The VL Myrsky (\\\"Storm\\\") was a Finnish single-seat fighter built by the State Aircraft Factory, Valtion lentokonetehdas. It first flew on 23 December 1941 and is the only fighter entirely designed and built in Finland to reach series production. 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