Aircraft museum in Latvia faces closure

Parts of an Aero L-13 Blanik airplane on display at the Aviation Museum in Riga, Latvia. — GINTS IVUSKANS/AFP

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.