Spilve airport, Rīga, Latvia

Quick footage of mostly abandoned Spilve airport on west bank of Daugava river, Rīga, Latvia.
It was Spilve meadows airfield was first used as early as World War I.
From 1928 it becomes Riga Central Airport - Rīgas Centrālā Lidosta.
The building was erected at 1954. This is probably a last building with Soviet symbolics you can find in Rīga.
Airport was abandoned mostly because it became too small for modern passenger aircrafts and its location does not fit modern safety standard.
Runway still exists and the whole premises are being used as an airfield by small private aircrafts.
The destiny of a building is still unclear though.

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