Archives for Aviation
Antanas Gustaitis
Antanas Gustaitis was born on March 26th, 1898, in a rural village Obelinė, Javaravas county, Marijampolė district, Lithuania. He spent the years of World War I in Jaroslavl (Russia), where…
Vytautas Lapenas Flight School
Does the sky attract you? Are you flying in your dreams? You just need to take the first step into the sky. We assure you that our initial training for…
Lithuanian Aviation Museum
The Lithuanian Aviation Museum formerly known as the Lithuanian Technical Museum was founded on February 19, 1990, on the base of the Vytautas Magnus Military Museum section of Technical History.…
Lithuanian pilots: Steponas Darius and Stasys Girenas
Steponas Darius and Stasys Girenas were Lithuanian pilots (USA citizens) that made a significant flight in the history of world's aviation. On 15th July, 1933, they flew over the Atlantic…
Palanga Airport
Representational information Palanga International Airport is a small regional airport in the west of Lithuania. At present, mainly the following types of passenger airplanes land at the airport: YK-40, YK-42,…
Lithuanian aviation
Long ago Lithuanians became interested in possibilities to fly. Lithuanian military engineer Kazimieras Simonavicius described the principles of the multistage rockets' construction in the artillery textbook "Artis Magnae Artilleriae", which…
Lithuanian Air Force use of the Gloster Gladiator during the Second World War
Shortly after the Latvian Government placed its order for Gladiators, the Government of the neighbouring Baltic state of Lithuania also placed an order in May 1937, for 14 aircraft, which…
The White Eagles: Polish Aviation 1918-1920
In 1914, Poland was a dream, not a geopolitical reality. The disastrous War of the Polish Succession issued in the partition of the ancient, Catholic kingdom. Austria took Galicia in…
The Group of ANBO-41 Reconstruction
Lithuanian aviation traditions are rather old. We know the fact that European connoisseurs were surprised by the squadron of planes designed by General Antanas Gustaitis whose Centenary was celebrated in…
Steponas Darius
Steponas DARIUS (1896-1933), aviator, born in Rubiske, county of Taurage, on Jan. 8, 1896. His name originally was Darasius. In 1917 he changed it in Darius while living in the…