The K 43 wore a simple two-tone green camouflage colour scheme with bare-metal undersides while in service with the Finnish Coast Guard.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Junkers W 33 / W 34 / Ju.46 - ГерманияGermany - 1926

Matching floatplane and shed - the remote seaplane base at Turku consisted of a small house-type building for admin and shelter, and a small corrugated-iron hangar in which to house Junkers K 43 OH-MVI, seen here, which had seen service with the Finnish Air Force as JU-127 before being withdrawn from military service and joining the Finnish Coast Guard in 1945

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Junkers W 33 / W 34 / Ju.46 - ГерманияGermany - 1926

By the time of John Stroud’s visit to Turku in the late spring of 1949, only two of the three K 43s used by the Merivartiolaitos (Finnish Coast Guard) were still in service; OH-MVH (c/n 2703) at Helsinki and OH-MVI (c/n 2707) at Turku. Note the Coast Guard sub-serial “LK-9” just visible on the forward fuselage beneath the cockpit.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Junkers W 33 / W 34 / Ju.46 - ГерманияGermany - 1926

The primitive Coast Guard station at Turku as seen over the broad corrugated wing of OH-MVI. Turku is the oldest city in Finland’s history, its position on Finland’s south-west coast having made it an important strategic location.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Junkers W 33 / W 34 / Ju.46 - ГерманияGermany - 1926

A puff of smoke issues from ’MVI’s Hornet engine as it is started up for a sortie from Turku.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Junkers W 33 / W 34 / Ju.46 - ГерманияGermany - 1926

Although of indifferent quality, this rare photograph of one of the Finnish K 43s in flight shows the type’s broad-chord tapered square-tipped wings of all-metal construction with narrow unbalanced ailerons. The wing’s girder framework consisted of tubular spar booms braced partly with tubes and partly with sheet-metal pressings.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Junkers W 33 / W 34 / Ju.46 - ГерманияGermany - 1926