Hi,
Are you getting a car while you are there?
1. You could try and have a look round the old Soviet fighter base at Tukums – it’s about 45 mins out of Riga to the West. I haven’t actually been on the site but it looks easily accessible. Just looks like the usual derelict airfield site however – no aircraft.
2. There is a military museum near Kuldiga – private and full of stuff that the owner has dug up from the battlefields, including bits of an IL-2 and FW-190 (from memory). There was also an AN-2 and some tanks. The opening times seem a bit eratic to say the least but I can try and get more details if you want from my better halfs father who took us there.
3. Liepaja – the airfield had a couple of derelict MiGs which you could poke around about 2 years ago. You can also take a glider flight here….where they stap on a parachute that looks WW2 vintage! Never mind the lack of height or training on its use…more of a seat cushion really.
4. The island of Saaremma (owned by Estonia) has a few bits as well including another private musuem of battlefields relics, old soviet rocket base and some fortifications from WW2 and the big battles that happened here. You are still warned not to go tramping about in the woods here since there is atill live ordnance to be found.
Hope some of that is useful.
SF.
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