Second International Aeronautic Exhibition

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| visitors = 15,000,000

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| prevexpo = ILIS 1936

| prevcity = Stockholm

| nextexpo = Exposition internationale de l'eau (1939)

| nextcity = Liège

| suppl = Universal Expositions

| prevsuppl = Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne

| prevsupcity = Paris

| nextsuppl = 1939 New York World's Fair

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File:Aimo Cajander.png

The Second International Aeronautic Exhibition,

(full name Second International Aeronautical Exhibition in the league Air Defence of Finland SILI) was held in Helsinki in 1938.{{cite web|url=http://www.bie-paris.org/site/en/expos/introduction-to-expos/international-expos |accessdate=2014-01-31 |title=INTERNATIONAL EXPOs |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140326194118/http://www.bie-paris.org/site/en/expos/introduction-to-expos/international-expos |archivedate=26 March 2014 }} It ran from 14 May to 22 May 1938.

It was a special exhibition recognised by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) which attracted 25 participating countries including Czechoslovakia, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Latvia, and Sweden; and 15 million visitors and took place in Helsinki's exhibition hall.{{cite web|url=http://www.bie-paris.org/site/en/library-a-publications/document-library/doc_details/208-helsinki-1938-french.html|language=French|accessdate=24 August 2012|title=HELSINKI 1938}}{{dead link|date=July 2014}} The commissioners were Alexander Frey, Erik von Frenckell and Mauri Honkajuuri director of Kansallis-Osake-Pankki. Visitors included the racing driver S. P. J. Keinänen and the prime minister Aimo Cajander{{cite web|url=http://yle.fi/elavaarkisto/artikkelit/sili_ii_-ilmailunayttely_1938_43564.html#media=43566|accessdate=28 August 2012|language=Finnish|title=SILI II -ilmailunäyttely 1938}}

Aircraft on display included Morane-Saulnier Type L, Fokker C.X, VL Tuisku and VL Viima.