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Spilves lidosta (Spilve airport, also given as '''Rīgas Centrālā Lidosta''' - Rīga Central airport) is a former civilian and military airport in Latvia located 5 km north of the Rīga city centre, from which aircraft took off as soon as the First World War . It became the first international airport of Rīga in the 1930s , which, from 1937, linked the capital city with Helsinki via Tallinn , Warsaw via Vilnius , Berlin and Moscow via Kaunas . After World War II and the Soviet occupation, it has been rebuilt into a 1950s -era airport, the hub of Aeroflot . A new ring taxiway and refreshed surface were added. The airfield was closed for regular flights in the late 1980 s. The terminal building still remains as a notable example of ''Stalin's baroque'' architecture. A large technical school existed here until the in flight) on this site indicates that the airfield is now used for recreational aviation. The Rumbula Air Base , 8 Nm to the Southeast, has roughly suffered the same fate as Spilve. The problem is to get reliable documents about both the airfield and the aircraft shown, be it from the Latvian Air Force, the government or the EASA . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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