Linkoping, Sweden

The video below, titled «The Futuro house — the most AMAZING space age home ever!», was recently posted to Youtube by Scandinavian Design 101. The footage gives us a nice look at this Futuro both inside and out as well as a few shots taken during its restoration along with a little (not new) history.

The Swedish Air Force museum published a great article 112422 about their Futuro. The article was interesting though it did not add anything new but what was really cool was the awesome aerial shot of the Futuro seen below that accompanied the article. The photo is displayed here under CC License and is by David Brohede/Air Force Museum.

This photo was recently posted to the Swedish Air Force Museum Instagram account. The photo does not show us anything new about the Futuro or its location and in many ways it is unremarkable and similar to other photos of this unit so you may find yourself asking «why are we adding it here?»

The honest answer; we are not too sure. Perhaps the lighting on the Futuro or the coloring of the sky or both caught our eye; or maybe it’s because «we just plain like it»!

As noted in the 052221 update to this page following completion of its restoration of this Futuro was moved to a location just outside a hanger at the Swedish Air Force museum in May 2021.

To mark the occasion the museum streamed a presentation about the Futuro and other topics; since that was in Swedish we did not add the footage to this page at that time.

However on 090121 the museum added a copy of that presentation with English subtitles to Youtube and that version can be found below.

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As previously noted on this page the Swedish Air Force Museum planned to install their Futuro in its permanent location in May 2021 and it seems they were able to meet that goal.

The video footage below was posted to the Swedish Air Force Museum Instagram account story (@flygvapenmuseum) 052021 and it shows the Futuro in the process of being moved to that final location. In addition the Flygvapenmuseum was kind enough to send us these photos (thanks so much Cecilia! We really appreciate it!).

The Swedish Air Force Museum website recently added an update on the status of their Futuro. Restoration work continues and the completed Futuro will be placed in front of the museum for the inauguration of Leklanda (described as a new flight-inspired play environment) in May 2021.

The update is accompanied by these two photos. The notation on the first translates (according to Google) to «Secret of utmost importance for the kingdom’s curiosity» but, as is often the case with the Scandinavian l

We feel the «big reveal» getting closer as work on the restoration of this Futuro continues. These photos were posted to Instagram 031320 by the Swedish Air Force Museum.

It will be fascinating to see this Futuro «converted» to a more conventional format with the standard entryway rather than its original entry through the base of the unit but still having the double size windows it was originally fitted with. The restoration also looks like it will be of extremely high quality; these photos ce

We recently received an email from Lukas Andersson who works at the Swedish Air Force Museum with an update on the progress of the restoration of this Futuro (thanks Lukas).

Progress paused for quite some time while the body segment with the aperture for the door was fabricated; the original units configured for the Swedish Air Force were accessed through the bottom and there was no body section containing a door). That section has now been received as can be seen in the photos below. The next

Looks like work on refurbishing this Futuro is now well underway; ronnyvld shared a couple of photos of the work in progress on Instagram recently and was kind enough to send a couple more to us via email. We are thinking she will be truly awesome once the work is complete.

This is the first photo we have come across showing progress/work on this Futuro. It was posted to Instagram 050318 by ronnyvld.

This short video clip of the interior of this Futuro was posted to Instagram 110717 by The Swedish Air Force Museum.

On 091216 one of two Futuros previously located on a Swedish Air Force bombing range in Stråtjära arrived at the Flygvapenmuseum, the Swedish Air Force Museum in Linköping where it will be restored and then used as a conference room.

The Futuros at Stråtjära were two of three purchased by the Swedish Air Force from Polykem in the 1970’s; the third is located on Satenas Air Force Base. These units were heavily modified; in particular they had 7 oversize windows instead of the standard 16 around