Validation date: 03 05 2015
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55°12'50"N 024°19'12"E
runway: 04/22 - 400x20m - asphalt
Petrašiūnai 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
Undated aerial photography of the airfield (Google Earth) suggests the airfield is in reasonable shape, but requires a major cleanup. Dirtpiles can be seen on both ends of the runway and the platform is getting overgrown with weeds. In an aeronautical sense it is abandoned and therefore officially closed to all traffic.
Petrašiūnai in 2014 (Google Earth)