Spilve Airport
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| Airport type | Civil | ||||||||||
| Location | Riga | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 5 ft / 1.6 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 56°59′28″N 024°4′30″E / 56.99111°N 24.07500°E | ||||||||||
| Website | www www | ||||||||||
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Spilve Airport Location of airport in Latvia | |||||||||||
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Spilve Airport (Latvian: Spilves lidosta, also given as Rīgas Centrālā lidosta – Riga Central Airport) is a former civilian and military airport in Latvia located 5 km north of Riga's city centre, from which aircraft took off as early as the First World War. It became the first international airport of Riga in the 1920s and fell into disuse in the 1980s after Riga International Airport was built.