Eleja

56°40'33"N 023°18'45"E

runway: 02/20 - 400x20m - asphalt

Eleja air field was an airfield 7 kilometers north of the town of Eleja, 55 kilometers southwest of Riga, Latvia.
The airfield was built by the Soviet Union in the 1975-1985 timeframe and used for agricultural activities by state-run Aeroflot. It featured a runway, two small platforms and some taxiways.


The airfield in a 2000 aerial photo (Google Earth)

In February 2012 Latvian Aviation changed the airfields condition to 'completely unavailable for flight operations due to dismantled runway.


The runway was almost completely removed, as can be seen from this MyAirfields photo.