Tikkakoski is a northernmost residential area of
Jyväskylä
Jyväskylä () is a city and municipality in Finland in the western part of the Finnish Lakeland. It is located about 150 km north-east from Tampere, the third largest city in Finland; and about 270 km north from Helsinki, the capital of ...
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Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bot ...
, about north of the city centre. It has a population of 6,000.
The
Jyväskylä Airport
Jyväskylä Airport (; fi, Jyväskylän lentoasema) is an airport in Jyväskylä, Finland. It is located in the center of the Finnish Lake District approximately north of the center of Jyväskylä. The airport terminal was renovated in the fa ...
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Aviation Museum of Central Finland
The Finnish Air Force Museum ( fi, Suomen Ilmavoimamuseo), formerly the Aviation Museum of Central Finland ( fi, Keski-Suomen ilmailumuseo), is an aviation museum located near Jyväskylä Airport in Tikkakoski, Jyväskylä, Finland. The museu ...
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Finnish Air Force
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base, with the FAF Headquarters, the Finnish
Air Force Academy,
Air Force Band, and the C4I Materiel Command, are all located in Tikkakoski.
Gallery
File:Jyväskylä airport apron.jpg, A view of the Jyväskylä Airport
File:Jyväskylä airport terminal.jpg, Jyväskylä Airport Terminal in Tikkakoski
File:Tikkakoski factory 1930s.jpg, Oy Tikkakoski Ab gun factory in the 1930s
File:Gourdou-Leseurre GL-22 070707.JPG, Gourdou-Leseurre fighter aircraft in the Aviation Museum of Central Finland
References
External links
Neighbourhoods of Jyväskylä
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