Antanas Gustaitis

Antanas Gustaitis
Antanas Gustaitis
	Gustaitis photographed with uniform of the Lithuanian Air Force and state awards
Born	27 March 1898; Obelinė, Javaravas Volost, Marijampolė County, Russian Empire
Died	October 16, 1941 (aged 43); Moscow, Soviet Union
Buried	Unknown
Allegiance	Lithuanian Armed Forces (1919–1940);
Years of service	1919–1940
Rank	Brigadier General;
Awards	Commander's Cross of the Order of the Cross of Vytis (1927); Officer's Cross of the Order of Vytautas the Great (1930); Officer's Order of the Crown of Italy (1930); Commander's Order of the Crown of Italy (1934); Commander's Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas (1934); Commander's Cross of the Order of Vytautas the Great (1939); Officer's Order of the Legion of Honour(1935); Commander's Order of Vasa(1935); Czechoslovak 4th degree with swords Order of the White Eagle (1935); Grand Officer's Order of the Three Stars (1938);
Alma mater	Petrograd Institute of Transportation Engineering (1916); Konstantinovsky Artillery School (1917),; Lithuanian School of Military Aviation (1919); Institut supérieur de l'aéronautique et de l'espace (1928)

Antanas Gustaitis (March 26, 1898 – October 16, 1941) was a Brigadier General in the Lithuanian Armed Forces who modernized the Lithuanian Air Force, which at that time was part of the Lithuanian Army. He was the architect or aeronautical engineer who undertook the task to design and construct several military trainers and reconnaissance aircraft.

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