S. Darius and S. Girėnas Airfield

S. Darius and S. Girėnas Airport

S. Darius and S. Girėnas Airport, also known as Aleksotas Airport, is a small airport located in Aleksotas district of Kaunas, Lithuania, about 3 kilometres south-west from city centre. On May 6, 1993, the airport was named after the Lithuanian pilots Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas, who perished in a crash near the end of an attempted non-stop flight from New York to Lithuania in 1933.