Mikalavas

55°21'08"N 026°20'19"E

runway: 10/28 - 400x20m - asphalt

Mikalavas airfield was an airfield 100 kilometers northeast of Vilnius, Lithuania
The airfield was built 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 short taxiway to two small parking areas south of the runway.
After Lithuanian independence in 1990 the airfield was abandoned.


No photos of the airfield while in use have been located


From what can be seen in Google Earth the airfield appears in a fairly good state.
Photos shot on the runway heads show they are having grass growing in the cracks.
The most recent photo shows tires strewn across the runway.
No buildings can be seen at the airfield.
The airfield is uncertified and therefore officially closed to all traffic.





A reasonably clean runway looking east, photographed in 2009 (Darius Smalskys)





The runway looking west, photographed in 2010 (andrius.emc).





The abandoned Mikalavas airstrip in 2006 (Google Earth)