Validation date: 07 02 2012
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55°06'23"N 022°05'06"E
Runway: 07/25 - 500x30meters/0000feet - concrete
Lumpenai airfield name was an airfield 210 kilometers west-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 medium sized platform to the north of the runway.
After Lithuanian independence the airfield was abandoned.
No photos have been located
Aerial photography of the airfield from 2007 (Google Earth) suggests the runway is in a reasonable shape.
It is abandoned howevere, and therefore officially closed to all traffic.
2007 Google Earth image of the airfield.