Asiago Airfield
| Asiago Aeroporto di Asiago “Romeo Sartori” airport |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | LIDA |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 1139 m (3737 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 1 km north of Asiago |
| Street | Contrada Podestà, Via Cinque |
| Local transport | bus |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1924 |
| operator | Aeroporto di Asiago SpA |
| Runways | |
| 08/26 | 1120 m × 23 m asphalt |
| 08 / 26GLD | 1100 m × 90 m grass |
The Asiago airport ( Italian Aeroporto di Asiago “Romeo Sartori” ) is an airfield near Asiago in the northern Italian region of Veneto .
Infrastructure and use
The airfield is located around one kilometer north of Asiago on the plateau of the Seven Municipalities in the southern Eastern Alps at an altitude of around 1140 meters. It has two parallel runways (08/26) , around 1,100 meters long, running in an east-west direction , of which the northern runway is paved. In the north-east there is an asphalt apron with smaller handling facilities. The airfield is used for general aviation , in particular for gliding . It is run by Aeroporto di Asiago SpA , in which several municipalities and the Vicenza Chamber of Commerce are involved.
history
The Asiago airfield was established in 1924 on the occasion of the first international gliding competition, in which the German gliding pioneer Arthur Martens set a world record on 14 October 1924. The airfield was under the military until the 1970s, but civil joint use was permitted. In the 1960s, the regional airline Aeralpi connected Asiago with Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo .
The airfield is named after the Roana military and test pilot Romeo Sartori, who died in an air accident in 1933.
Web links
- Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
- Official website