"Pisa International Airport Pisa International Airport () , also named Galileo Galilei Airport is an airport located in Pisa, Italy. It is the main airport in Tuscany and the 10th in Italy in terms of passengers. It is named after Galileo Galilei, the famous scientist and native of Pisa. The airport was first developed for the military in the 1930s and 1940s. The airport was used by 5,233,118 passengers in 2017. It serves as a focus city of Ryanair. The airport had its own railway station with a service to and from Pisa Central railway station but this was closed"
"born in Pisa, see ; among notable non-natives long resident in the city: Pisa is a one-hour drive from Florence (). One can also get a train directly to Florence from a Central rail station in Pisa (Pisa Centrale). Local buses connect the city of Pisa with all the neighboring cities (come to Pontedera, then take a bus for Volterra, San Miniato, etc.). Taxis come when requested from Pisa International Airport and Central Station. Pisa has an international airport known as Pisa International Airport located in San Giusto neighborhood in Pisa. The airport has a people mover system, called ""Pisamover"","
"its original name ""Military Airport Orazio Pierozzi"", named in memory of an Italian airman of the First World War. The airport is officially named after Antonio Papola, in memory of the Italian aviator died on February 13, 1948 in an air accident who had a special bond with the city. It is also officially known as ""Casale"" with reference to the contiguous neighborhood in Brindisi with the same name and also as ""Salento Airport"" with reference to the geographic region where it is located. The strategic position of the airport in the Mediterranean region, along with its multi-modal connections with"
"Catania–Fontanarossa Airport Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (, English: Catania International Airport) also named as Vincenzo Bellini Airport, is an international airport southwest of Catania, the second largest city on the Italian island of Sicily. It is named after the opera composer Vincenzo Bellini who was born in Catania. It is the busiest airport in Sicily and the 6th busiest in Italy with 9.120.913 passengers in 2017. Major airlines such as Alitalia, Lufthansa and KLM offer services here and connect numerous European destinations such as Rome, Munich, Amsterdam and Berlin, while low-cost airlines such as easyJet and Ryanair offer flights to leisure destinations."
"The airport is named after Giovan Battista Pastine, an Italian airship pilot who served in World War I. Ciampino Airport was opened in 1916 and is one of the oldest airports still in operation. From here, on April 10th 1926, Umberto Nobile took off on the airship Norge, the first aircraft to reach the North Pole and the first to fly across the polar ice cap from Europe to America. In October 1930, the first helicopter prototype designed by Corradino D'Ascanio was tested at Ciampino Airport, reaching a record altitude of 18 m, 8m45s duration and 1,078 m distance flown."
"km south of the new Rhodes International Airport. The airport was built in 1938 during the Italian occupation of the Dodecanese as a base for the Regia Aeronautica and was called Aeroporto di Martisa ""G.Pessi Parvis"" and its Italian airport code was 801. Giorgio Pessi Tenente Giorgio Pessi (alias Giuliano Parvis) was a World War I flying ace born in Austro-Hungary who chose to fly for Italy. He was credited with six aerial victories. Giorgio Pessi was born on 17 November 1891 in Trieste, when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He attended the local technical high school before"
"on December 15, 2013 to allow construction work to begin on a new fully automatic connection known as the Pisa Mover to take passengers to Pisa Central. The Pisa Mover came into operation on March 18, 2017. The airport has 5 passenger and 1 coach parking areas. Besides civilian operations, the airport is also used extensively by the Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force) and is a base for, amongst others, the C-130 Hercules and C-27J Spartan transport aircraft. The airport is home to 46ª Brigata Aerea Silvio Angelucci (46th Air Brigade). During the end of World War II the airport"
"was used as a base for the 15th Air Force of the United States Army Air Forces. The airport resides at an elevation of above mean sea level. It has 2 asphalt paved runways: 04R/22L measuring and 04L/22R measuring . In 2006 and 2007 the airport was the fastest growing among Italy's top 15 airports with passenger numbers up 30% in 2006 and 24% in 2007. In 2008 it was Italy's 11th busiest airport handling and 4,011,525 passengers in 2010. In 2011 the growth rise to 11.3% and the airport carried 4.526.723 passengers. Pisa International Airport Pisa International Airport ()"
"Florence Airport Florence Airport, Peretola , and formally Amerigo Vespucci Airport, is the international airport of Florence, the capital of the Italian region of Tuscany. It is the second-busiest Tuscan airport in terms of passengers after Pisa International Airport. It serves as a focus city for Vueling. The first air field in Florence was created in the Campo di Marte area in 1910, when military authorities allowed a field to be used for ""experiments in air navigation"". Campo di Marte thus became Florence's first airport, and remained so throughout the 1920s. However, the field was soon surrounded by houses and"
"Pisa Aeroporto railway station Pisa Aeroporto railway station () was a railway station within Pisa International Airport, Italy. A shuttle train service operated between it and the nearby main railway station in Pisa, Pisa Centrale railway station, although there was also a few direct services to Florence. It was closed on 15 December 2013 to make way for the construction of a fully automated people mover, called ""PisaMover"", which operates services to Pisa Centrale every five minutes. PisaMover came into operation in March 2017. Consisting of only two platforms, the airport station linked the airport with Pisa Centrale, the main"
"Forlì Airport Forlì International Airport , also known as Luigi Ridolfi Airport (), is an airport in Forlì, a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. It serves Emilia-Romagna, eastern Tuscany, specifically the metropolitan Bologna and Rimini Riviera areas. It is named for the Italian aviator . Since June 2015, it is operated by Air Romagna S.p.A., a public joint stock company registered in Forlì, Italy. Since Air Romagna S.p.A. has taken responsibility for the airport, the new focus is to promote advances in aviation business models, responsibly manage the carbon footprint, examine and share new ways to work"
"an area of and is named after polymath Leonardo da Vinci who, in 1480, designed a flying machine with wings and the first proto helicopter. The airport was officially opened on 15 January 1961, with two runways, replacing the smaller Rome Ciampino Airport, which remains in service for some low-cost airlines as well as domestic and charter operations. Despite being officially opened in 1961, Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport had actually been in use since 20 August 1960. This was to help relieve air traffic that was congesting Rome Ciampino Airport during the 1960 Summer Olympics. During the 1960s, home-carrier Alitalia"
"badges from Chile and France, and an appointment as Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown. He died in Buenos Aires in 1936 and was buried with the highest military honors in La Recoleta Cemetery. National Route A002, which links Buenos Aires to the Ministro Pistarini International Airport, was named in his honor in 1952. Pablo Riccheri Pablo Riccheri (August 8, 1859 – July 29, 1936) was an Argentine army officer and minister of war during the second administration of president Julio Roca. Riccheri was born in San Lorenzo, Santa Fe to Catalina Ciufardi and Lazzaro Riccheri, both Italian"
"is intituled to the Italian aviator Livio Bassi. The airport is a base for the ""37th Fighter Wing"" of the Italian Air Force with the Eurofighter Typhoon, and for the ""82th CSAR"" (Combat Search and Rescue) with the helicopters AgustaWestland AW139. The airfield is one of the four forward operating bases (FOBs) used by the NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control stationed out of NATO Air Base Geilenkirchen in Geilenkirchen, Germany. The airport gained international attention during Operation Unified Protector in 2011 when NATO aircraft were based there during military intervention in the Libyan Civil War. This table does not"
"movements. Post World War II, he seems to have temporarily forfeited the wealth he had made as a fascist; there is a decree of forfeiture dated 29 November 1945. It is followed by a revocation on 30 June 1946. Pier Piccio died in Rome, Italy on 31 July 1965. Pier Ruggero Piccio Lieutenant General Count Pier Ruggero Piccio (27 September 1880 – 30 July 1965) was an Italian aviator and the founding Chief of Staff of the Italian Air Force. With 24 victories during his career, he is one of the principal Italian air aces of World War I, behind"
"honor include a Boeing 767 in the Alitalia fleet, the Istituto Aeronautico Arturo Ferrarin in Gallarate, Piazza Arturo Ferrarin in Thiene, and streets in Vicenza, Verona, and Fiumicino Airport. Ferrarin's exploits inspired the character ""Ferrarin"" in the Japanese animated film ""Porco Rosso"" directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Arturo Ferrarin Arturo Ferrarin (13 February 1895 – 18 July 1941) was an Italian pioneer aviator. His exploits included winning the ""Raid Roma-Tokyo"" air race in 1920 and a non-stop flight from Italy to Brazil in 1928 with fellow aviator Carlo Del Prete. The latter flight set the world distance record for a non-stop"
"Brescia Airport Brescia ""Gabriele D'Annunzio"" Airport (, ), also known as Montichiari Airport, is located in Montichiari, southeast of City of Brescia, Italy. Other nearby airports are Milan-Malpensa, Milan-Linate, Bergamo Orio al Serio and Verona-Villafranca. The airport is on the site of Italy's first air race meeting in September 1909, and the first outside France. The meeting was attended by the aviators Louis Blériot and Glenn Curtiss, among others. Gabriele D'Annunzio flew in one of Curtiss's planes and drew on the experience of the meeting in his novel ""Forse che sì forse che no"" (1910). Franz Kafka and Max Brod"
"direct from the airport. Other airports in Sicily: Catania–Fontanarossa Airport Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (, English: Catania International Airport) also named as Vincenzo Bellini Airport, is an international airport southwest of Catania, the second largest city on the Italian island of Sicily. It is named after the opera composer Vincenzo Bellini who was born in Catania. It is the busiest airport in Sicily and the 6th busiest in Italy with 9.120.913 passengers in 2017. Major airlines such as Alitalia, Lufthansa and KLM offer services here and connect numerous European destinations such as Rome, Munich, Amsterdam and Berlin, while low-cost airlines such as"
"Abruzzo Airport PESCARA Abruzzo Airport is an airport located in Pescara, Italy. It is located approximately 4 km (2.5 miles) from the centre of Pescara, about 180 km (112 miles) from Rome, a 2-hour drive by car on a motorway across the Appennine mountains. It is the only international airport in the Abruzzo region. Open to civilian traffic since 1996, it has seen a steady increase in the number of transit passengers over the years, mainly due to a growth in low-cost airlines and flights. In 1973 the English historian Bruce Barrymore Halpenny, then living in Abruzzo, organised a British"
"the 1980s. Its name comes from the small village where it is located in the town of Peschiera Borromeo. Its official name is ""Airport Enrico Forlanini"", after the Italian inventor and aeronautical pioneer born in Milan. Linate airport buildings are located in the Segrate Municipality, and the field is located for a large part in the Peschiera Borromeo Municipality. Since 2001, because of Linate's close proximity to the centre of Milan – only east of the city centre, compared with Malpensa, which is 41 km (25 mi) northwest of the city centre – its capacity has been reduced by law"
"recently upgraded the airport complex. The airport is also the manufacturing base for Piaggio Aerospace, an Italian aircraft design and production company. In 2017, with 1,249,374 passengers having passed through the airport, Genoa remained as the 23rd busiest Italian airport by passenger traffic. The Spanish low-cost airline Volotea operates one of its four bases in Italy in Genoa Airport. The airport is named after the notable Genoese navigator and explorer Christopher Columbus. Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport Genoa Airport () also named Christopher Columbus Airport (""Aeroporto Cristoforo Colombo"" in Italian) (), and commonly named ""Aeroporto di Genova-Sestri Ponente"" (Genoa-Sestri Ponente Airport,"
"the Pan American Games, the terminal was expanded. On 20 October 1998, Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 took over the airport. The airport was named after ""Brigadier General Bartolomé de la Colina"" until 20 August 2008, when the airport's name was changed as a tribute to the renowned composer and musician Ástor Piazzolla, who was born in Mar del Plata. Astor Piazzolla International Airport Ástor Piazzolla International Airport () is located north of the center of Mar del Plata, a city in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina. The airport covers an area of 436 hectares (1077 acres) and is operated by"
"all his crew, including Lt. Colonel Capanni and 2nd Lieutenant Guglielmo Pallavicini. To the memory of Brigadier General Stefano Cagna is now named for the 15th Wing S.A.R. and C/S.A.R. of the Italian Aeronautica Militare based at Cervia Air Force Base. Stefano Cagna Stefano Cagna (Ormea, December 25, 1901 - August 1, 1940) was an Italian aviator, a Brigadier General of the Italian Royal Air Force, he fought in World War II and was decorated with the gold medal for valour in memory. Nicknamed ""Stuin"" (Stefanino), he enlisted as an officer in the Italian Royal Navy and earned his pilots"
"of 46 when a new experimental plane he was testing crashed at Guidonia Montecelio. Ferrarin's military funeral was held in Rome followed by burial in the cemetery of Induno Olona in the Province of Varese, the home of Adelaide Castiglioni's family. In 1970, the 50th anniversary of Ferrarin's Rome-Tokyo flight, the new airport in Thiene was named in his honor and inaugurated in a ceremony attended by officials from the Italian Air Force, the Ministry of Transport and Aviation, and the Japanese Embassy as well as Ferrarin's widow and his two sons Carlo and Roberto. Other entities named in Ferrarin's"
"Mafia following Falcone and Borsellino's deaths, Riina was arrested on 15 January 1993, and was serving a life sentence, until his death in 2017, for sanctioning the murders of both magistrates as well as many other crimes. Another Mafioso convicted of the murder of Falcone is Giovanni Brusca, also known as ""lo scannacristiani"" (the people slaughterer). He was one of Riina's associates, who admitted to being the one who detonated the explosives. Palermo International Airport has been named ""Falcone-Borsellino Airport"" in honor of the two judges and hosts a memorial of the pair by the local sculptor Tommaso Geraci. Monuments"
"wing Gruppi proletari organizzati. In 1991, after nine years of investigations the Court of Palermo sent nine bosses of the Sicilian Mafia Commission to trial. Subsequently, one of the members of the hit team, Salvatore Cucuzza turned state witness (pentito). On January 12, 2007, the remaining killers of La Torre and the remaining principals of the Commission, Salvatore ""Totò"" Riina, Bernardo Provenzano, Giuseppe Calò, Bernardo Brusca and Nenè Geraci were finally sentenced. The civilian airport of Comiso was named after Pio La Torre. Pio La Torre Pio La Torre (Palermo, December 24, 1927 – Palermo, April 30, 1982) was a"
"Turin Airport Turin Airport () , also known as Turin-Caselle Airport (""Aeroporto di Torino-Caselle""), is an airport located at Caselle Torinese, north-northwest of the city of Turin, in the Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont region, northern Italy. It is also named Sandro Pertini Airport (""Aeroporto Sandro Pertini""), after former Italian President Sandro Pertini. The airport was built in 1953, on the site of a World War II air base, and was renovated in 1989 for the 1990 FIFA World Cup and then again in 2005 in preparation for the Winter Olympics. Turin airport won the ""ACI Europe Best Airport Awards"""
"Actually it has been greatly improved and it is called the Mogadishu international airport. Petrella Airport The Petrella Airport (officially called """"Aeroporto Petrella di Mogadiscio"""") was the first international airport in Italian Somalia. It was opened in 1928 -just 3 miles south of Mogadishu- with the name ""Enrico Petrella"" in honor of an Italian pilot who died a few years before in the same airport of Italian Mogadiscio (in 1921, when was a simple airstrip runway). In 1941 the airport was partially destroyed during WW2 and remained inactive for some years as a civilian airport: only military airplanes used it."
"Rome Urbe Airport Rome Urbe Airport (, ) is a small civilian airport in Rome, situated in the northern part of the city, between Via Salaria and the Tiber River, about 2.7 NM (5 km, 3.1 mi) inside the Greater Ring Road (Italian: Grande Raccordo Anulare or GRA), the circular motorway around the city. The airport was inaugurated in Benito Mussolini's presence in 1928, with the name ""Lictor Airport"" (the name was chosen by Mussolini himself). Until the World War II it was the main civilian airport in Italy, and the base for the Italian national airline Ala Littoria. Inside"
"1985, until 1994 GESAP operated exclusively as handler and supplier of ground services for Palermo Airport, the management of which is directly assigned by the government and overseen by the District Airport Directorate. The airport was given the name ""Falcone Borsellino"" in memory of the two leading anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino who were murdered by the Sicilian Mafia in 1992. A diameter plaque featuring their portraits can be found to the right of one of the main outside entrances to the departure hall, set into a mosaic of Sicily. Created by the Sicilian sculptor Tommaso Geraci, it"
"the A330 but the Boeing 767 instead. When Alitalia received the aircraft, the airline dedicated an aircraft to Nassetti and Racchetti, with registration I-DEIC and I-DEIB respectively. In 2007, the two Boeing 767s were returned to the lessor. Alitalia combines the names of two pilots in two Boeing 777s: I-DISU - Alberto Nassetti and I-DISE - Pierpaolo Racchetti. Also, ENAC, the Italian authority for civil aviation, dedicated a road for each pilot in Rome's main airport. Alberto Nassetti Alberto Nassetti (18 July 1966 in Bologna – 30 June 1994 in Toulouse) was an Italian aviator, who was killed in a"
"named in 1949 to Livio Bassi, and after named the military Trapani–Birgi Airport. Livio Bassi Livio Bassi (8 October 1918 – 2 April 1941) was an Italian aviator, and a fighter ace of World War II. Bassi was born in Trapani, Sicily, in 1918, was a cadet of the prestigious Nunziatella military academy between 1932-35, and entered the Italian ""Accademia Aeronautica"" (Air Force Academy) in 1936. In 1939 he was made ""Sottotenente"" (2nd Lieutenant) of Regia Aeronautica and was assigned to the 395th Squadron (160nd Fighter Wing). In 1940 he was promoted to full Lieutenant. In this unit, with Fiat"
"Air Force war-hero Tito Minniti, who was born in Reggio Calabria. Its IATA airport code REG is derived from Reggio, Calabria's main city, which the airport is closest to. On the outskirts of the airport the training grounds of local football club Reggina Calcio are located. In March 2017, Alitalia announced to terminate all 56 weekly flights to and from the airport (to Milan, Rome and Turin) stating all routes were heavily loss-making. However, this decision was revoked shortly after. In summer 2017 Sacal S.p.A. (Società aeroportuale calabrese), also managing Lamezia Terme took over the management of the airport. Number"