Kulva

55°06'02"N 024°11'47"E

runway: 07/25 - 400x20m - asphalt

Kulva airfield was an airfield 85 kilometers northwest of Vilnius.
The airfield was built by order of the Lithuanian SSR (a state within the Soviet Union) Council of Ministers in the 1975-1985 timeframe.
It was used for agricultural activities by state-run Aeroflot. It consisted of a small runway and a fairly large platform to the southeast of the runway. After Lithuanian independence the airfield was abandoned.


No photos or maps of the airfield while in use have been located

Aerial photography of the airfield in November 2004 (Google Earth) suggests that at the time the airfield was in reasonable shape, but by 2011 dirtpiles could be seen on the runway and the platform was getting built over. Since then, the runway appears to have been removed, although its outlines can still easily be identified. In an aeronautical sense it is abandoned and therefore officially closed to all traffic.


Kulva in a fairly decent state in November 2004 (Google Earth)


Work was underway, making it impossible to land or take off at Kulva in this 2011 photo (Google Earth)


The situation at Kulva had not improved in 2012 (Google Earth)


Although the outlines are still recognisable, it looks like Kulva has been dug under in this 2014 photo (Google Earth)