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Finland Set To Keep Near 80 Year Old DC-3 Flying This Summer 3 minute read Finland will operate an almost 80-year-old DC-3 plane from Helsinki Airport for the first time in 20 years. The aircraft, owned by Airveteran Oy and operated by the DC Association, first flew in 1942 and has seen service with Finnair and the Finnish Defence Forces. Finland’s oldest operational passenger aircraft will return to Helsinki Airport. Photo: Aviodrome Lelystad via Wikimedia Commons OH-LCH will operate again this summer A DC-3 (registration OH-LCH) formerly owned by Finnair will return to Helsinki Airport over the summer. The aircraft’s last scheduled flight with Finnair was way back in 1967 and it hasn’t operated out of Helsinki Airport in around 20 years. The DC-3 has mainly conducted general aviation flights out of Helsinki-Malmi Airport ever since and continues to be the oldest operational passenger aircraft in Finland.

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