Aircraft museum in Latvia faces closure

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A private museum in Latvia holding dozens of Soviet Union aircraft collected over half a century by a retired flight engineer is facing closure.

Viktors Talpas said that his museum, which attracts several thousand visitors a month in non-pandemic times, is being forced to move before the end of the month to make way for an expansion of Riga airport.

Most of the planes date from the Cold War era and include a MiG-21 fighter, an Mi-6 helicopter gunship and a Tupolev Tu-22M1 training plane. The planes are on a plot of land owned by the airport that will be house a new hangar and control tower, with only a fence separating the museum from the contemporary planes of Latvian carrier airBaltic.

 

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