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History and Representation Data
The International Siauliai airport is situated in the Southeastern part of Siauliai in Northern Lithuania. Civil aircraft flights and ground services at the military Siauliai aerodrome are organized by Siauliai municipality owned enterprise Siauliai Airport. The owner and caretaker of this aerodrome is the Military Force of Lithuania. This aerodrome is one of the largest in the Baltic states and has two runways.
Siauliai airport was built before the second World War and was used as the base of military air force of independent Lithuania. After the second World war Siauliai Airport was taken over by The Soviet military air force and it was then that they constructed two parallel 3500 and 3200m. length runways.
After the restoration of independence the aerodrome had to be reconstructed to suit the civil requirements. At the beginning reconstruction ( it was started in 1995) it was decided to make it suitable for international transportation of both cargo and passengers. After two years of construction works carried out by „Philips Projects", the aerodrome was certified as cat.1 by ICAO requirements. New navigation equipment and systems were established and a new Tower for air traffic control and passenger terminal were built.
Passenger Terminal.
Flight control tower.
A stand by runway ( intended only for military aircraft ) was renovated by 2005. The renovation of the main runway( intended for both military and civil aircraft) was officially finished by October 26, 2006. 280000 square meters of the surface for 3,5 km length and 45 m width was renovated and 144000 square meters of the whole base territory were covered by asphalt. Taxy ways and new systems for drainage were renewed. The aerodrome possesses the most modern signal lighting system for both stand by and main runways controlled and managed by computers, thus the system can react to the changing meteorological conditions.
The opening of Siauliai airport runway after the reconstruction. Prime minister Gediminas Kirkilas, State defense minister Juozas Olekas, commander of Lithuanian armed forces Valdas Tutkus, commander of military air force Arturas Leita..
At the moment the municipality enterprise Siauliai airport has coordinated the territory for development of the international Siauliai airport together with Ministry of State Defense and the Lithuanian armed forces. Discussions concerning the detailed plans of the plot allocated for the development of the airport are going on. When this stage of the work is finished a Master Plan will be created. It is planned to finish all the Project and coordination works to finish by spring 2008.
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