Super Sytky OH-XTM to be restored at Tuesday Club

Maanantai 14.4.2025 - Tuesday Club member

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Aviation Museum Society has received PIK-21 OH-XTM Super Sytky (in English unofficially “Super Chug”), a damaged experimental aircraft, as a donation. The OH-XTM was designed, built and owned by M.Sc.Eng. Kai Mellén. The aircraft was completed in 1982 and is a single seat Formula-V-racer of wooden construction, with a VW-1600 powerplant.

Last summer the aircraft was involved in an air accident, serious enough to damage the fuselage beyond repairing to airworthy condition. In consequence the owner of the Super Chug decided - as an alternative to wrecking it - to donate the entire aeroplane to Aviation Museum Society to be restored at the Tuesday Club. The wings of the Super Chug remained relatively undamaged.

The aircraft will not be restored to airworthy status at the Tuesday Club. It will be restored to be a whole, operable display artefact. It’s important that the prototype of the PIK-21 OH-XTM Super Chug, designed and built by Kai Mellén, will remain a display artefact and at the same time an example of the magnificent series of PIK-designed aeroplanes.

On Saturday, 12 April 2025 the delivery of OH-XTM arrived at the yard of the Finnish Aviation Museum. The Super Chug, which had been carefully tied on a trailer, was unloaded. After that the fuselage, supported by a wooden framework, was carried into a sea container for shelter. The wings and other components of the aircraft were also stored in the container.

At the Tuesday Club the restoration of the OH-XTM Super Chug won’t start immediately. We are still in the middle of restoring the OH-XEA Snoopy experimental aircraft at the Puusepäntie workshop. The restoration of OH-XTM Super Chug will commence at some point during this year.

Photos by Lassi Karivalo.

Translation to English by Matti Liuskallio.