Lehtovaara PIK-16 Vasama


The Lehtovaara PIK-16 Vasama is a Finnish mid-wing, single-seat, FAI Standard Class glider that was designed by Tuomo Tervo, Jorma Jalkanen and Kurt Hedstrom, who were students at the Polyteknikkojen Ilmailukerho and produced by Lehtovaara.

Design and development

The PIK-16 is constructed from wood, with a fibreglass nose. The span wing employs a Wortmann FX-05-168 airfoil at the wing root, transitioning to a NACA 63 -165 at the wing tip. The wing features dive brakes.
A total of 56 PIK-16s were built. The aircraft was not type certified but it did become the second most exported Finnish glider, surpassed only by the later PIK-20 series.

Operational history

The prototype PIK-16 set a Finnish national record for a triangle course of before it had even finished flight testing.
The design won the OSTIV prize at the World Gliding Championships held at Junín, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina in 1963, finishing third in the standard class.

Variants

;PIK-16a
;PIK-16b
;PIK-16c

Aircraft on display