Nurmsi

58°51'41"N 025°44'06"E

runway: 14/32 - 2500x..meters/8202x..feet - grass (CLOSED)
runway: 14/32 - ...x..meters/...x..feet - grass

Air field Nurmsi (Estonian: Nurmsi lennuväli, also known as Koigi air field, Russian:Нурмси, ICAO: EENI) was a Soviet reserve airfield 10 kilometers east of Paide in Nurmsi county, Estonia.
The airfield was built at an unknown date, but it was listed on a 1974 US Dept of Defense Global Navigation chart as having jet facilities.
At the end of the Cold Was and after the independence of Estonia it was converted into farmland.

Around 1999 the airfield was reactivated. A parachuteschool opened at the airfield, which is today the largest parajumping location in Estonia. The former main runway of the the airfield was pressed back into service, albeit at much reduced dimensions. Its former dimensions could still be seen on a March 2007 aerial (infra-red?) photograph. From the photo it appeared to have had a 2500meter single runway oriented NW-SE, with two platforms on the east side and a small concrete building in the woods adjacent to it. The current parachute center uses about 1100 meters of that runway, enough to operate An-2 'Colts' or a Cessna Caravan.


2007 Aerial (infrared?) photo of Nurmsi airfield (Google Earth)