Lehtovaara PIK-16 Vasama

The PIK-16 is constructed from wood, with a fibreglass nose. The span wing employs a Wortmann FX-05-168 (14% modification) airfoil at the wing root, transitioning to a NACA 63 (2)-165 at the wing tip. The wing features dive brakes. The prototype Vasama had V tail, but it was changed to cruciform tail on production aircraft. 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 :Prototype with a V-tail. ;PIK-16c :Third version ==Aircraft on display==

• Finnish Aviation Museum ==Specifications (Pik-16 Vasama)==