Jelgava Airport Infrastruktūra

A civilian airfield on the northern border of the city of Jelgava. Approximately 800 meters of the once 2,500-meter runway have survived at the airfield.

The airfield was established before World War II. After the occupation of Latvia at the beginning of World War II, the Soviet 241st Assault Aviation Regiment (241-й штурмовой авиационный полк) was based here. On the first day of the Wehrmacht invasion of Latvia in 1941, on June 22, the German Luftwaffe bombed Jelgava airfield and destroyed a large part of the 27 I-15 bis fighters located there.

During the Cold War, it was used as one of the reserve military airfields on the northwestern border of the USSR. Until the early 1990s, Jelgava Airfield (Russian: Елгавский аэродром) was home to the 285th Special Helicopter Radioelectronic Warfare Squadron (285-й отдельная вертолётная ескадрилья радиоелектронной борбы, 285-й ОВЭ РЭБ) of the Soviet Air Force, which used Mi-8ППА helicopters.

After the restoration of Latvia's independence, the Jelgava airfield was used by the "Rīgas Aeroklubs" for parachuting lessons. In 1997, the airfield buildings and structures were privatized by the private company "SIA BaltDelAero", which did not conduct any economic activities at the airfield. The airfield territory has been transferred to a legal entity for the development of an industrial park.