Šiauliai Airport
| Šiaulių oro uostas | |
|---|---|
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | EYSA |
| IATA code | SQQ |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 135 m (443 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 7 km south of Šiauliai |
| Street |
 
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| Basic data | |
| opening | 1931 |
| operator |
Lithuanian Air Force Savivaldybės įmonė Šiaulių oro uostas |
| surface | 471 ha |
| Terminals | 1 |
| Passengers | 471 (2016) |
| Air freight | 2,655 t (2016) |
| Flight movements |
114 (2016) |
| Employees | 33 in the municipal company (2015) |
| Runways | |
| 14R / 32L | 3280 m × 32 m concrete |
| 14L / 32R | 3500 m × 45 m concrete |
The Siauliai airport (also Zokniai Airport ) is an airport in Lithuania 7 km southeast of Siauliai , both civilian and military is used. It is located in the north of the country about 40 km south of the state border with Latvia . The operator is the municipal company (Savivaldybės įmonė) Šiaulių oro uostas .
history
Šiauliai Airport was opened in 1931 as a military airfield for the Lithuanian Air Force .
After the occupation of Lithuania by the USSR in June 1940 , the airport was used by the Red Army . On June 22, 1941, the first day of Operation Barbarossa , the German Air Force destroyed large parts of the Soviet aircraft on the ground, especially Polikarpow I-15 and I-16 . The Germans then used the airport, which was repaired by Jewish forced laborers from Šiauliai.
After the war, the Soviet Union expanded the airfield into a large strategic military airport. By 1957, two 3500 m long runways were built. In addition to fighter planes and fighter bombers , strategic intercontinental bombers Myasishchev M-4 , tanker planes, and jamming and early warning planes were also stationed here. At that time, atomic bombs were also kept ready on the airport grounds.
In 1990/91 the Soviet Union disintegrated . On March 11, 1990, Lithuania became the first country to leave the USSR and to become independent. After the withdrawal of the Soviet / Russian troops from Lithuania, the country uses the base again for its own newly built air force.
use
Military use
When Lithuania joined NATO in 2004, the Lithuanian military took over Siauliai Airport. Šiauliai became the base of the Lithuanian Air Force. In addition, as part of the Baltic Air Policing, rotating swarms of fighter planes from NATO partners are stationed here to monitor the airspace of the three Baltic states.
Civil use
There are currently no regular passenger flights at this airport. The airport is used to a lesser extent as a cargo and transit airport for stopovers, e.g. B. used for refueling.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Passenger Terminal. Siauliai-Airport.com, accessed March 18, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c Activity Report. (No longer available online.) Siauliai-Airport.com, archived from the original on March 24, 2018 ; accessed on March 18, 2018 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Employees
- ↑ letectví + kosmonautika from November 2007: LanceRy nad Baltom (H. Müller, S. Büttner, MJ Stolar)
- ↑ Florian Hassel : Unwanted air traffic. The Baltic states are registering more Russian military jets than ever over the Baltic Sea . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 22, 2015, p. 7.
