- "Comrade, welcome to the Kiltsi military airfield! May I see your propuska?"

- Just kidding, there hasn't been anyone asking any propuska's in over ten years. I haven't been able to gather much information about the airfield, but some basic facts I do know.

- The construction of the airfield to the village of Kiltsi (few houses) near of Haapsalu Estonia, was started in 1939, after the Soviet Union had occupied Estonia. The airfield was in full service until the year of 1956. In 1967 to 1969 the airfield was renovated completely, with many new buildings constructed and the runway improved and widened. The airfield stayed in full service until Estonia regained it's independency in 1991. After this, the Russians started to end their operations in the airfield and the place was completely abandoned in 1994. Now the 2,5 kilometer long runway which is 40 meters wide, is growing grass and the several dozens of buildings are in a state of devastation.

- The local people who are living in Haapsalu and Kiltsi, are most likely collecting construction material from the old military buildings as you have needed some heavy equipment like sledge hammers, to knock down walls etc. Time just doesn't do a damage like that in ten years. I also suspect, that when the Russian soldiers left from the place, they also ripped off everything valuable from the buildings as well as material, that could be used again. The bitter occupation of Estonia is visible in the few anti-war, anti-Soviet and anti-soldier slogans, that are written to the walls of the buildings:

- Soldiers, go home!

- The concrete bunkers for the aircrafts are really well preserved, as they were made bomb proof you would have need something else than a sledge hammer, to rip off construction material from these. There is 28 of the concrete bunkers in the area. All of them are the same size and same in architecture.

- Only in one of the aircraft bunkers, we could see something different. From the 28 bunkers, only one of them contained this propaganda painting: Fighter planes flying above the Soviet sickle and hammer. Perhaps this was the bunker of the commander of the local squadron? Or the crew in this bunker was just really hard-working and artistic?

- One of the two bigger buildings with a control tower. I suspect that this building was responsible of guiding the planes to the air, as it's located on the side of the bunkers and the taxing runway is also close, from which the aircrafts would have moved to the actual runway. The other control tower is located on the other side and is right next to the actual runway.