Belluno Airfield
| Belluno Aeroporto di Belluno “Arturo Dell'Oro” airport |
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| Characteristics | |||
| ICAO code | LIDB | ||
| IATA code | BLX | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Height above MSL | 378 m (1240 ft ) | ||
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| Distance from the city center | 4 km northeast of Belluno | ||
| Street | SS50 | ||
| train | Belluno train station | ||
| Local transport | bus | ||
| Basic data | |||
| opening | 1916 | ||
| operator | Aeroclub Belluno | ||
| Start-and runway | |||
| 05/23 | 812 m of grass | ||
The Belluno airfield ( Italian Aeroporto di Belluno “Arturo Dell'Oro” ) is located near Belluno in the northern Italian region of Veneto .
Infrastructure and use
The airfield is located in the Dolomites , about four kilometers northeast of Belluno, between state road 50 in the west and the Piave river in the east. The approximately 800 meter long grass runway of the airfield runs roughly parallel to both. Smaller handling facilities and hangars are on the SS50 side. The airfield is primarily used for general aviation and also as a base for rescue helicopters. It is operated by the local aviation club.
history
The airfield was established by the Italian military in 1916 and was used as a front-line airfield during the First World War . A civil flight school was also active here from 1932 to 1936. In 1949 the Aeroclub Belluno was founded, which in the following years built up a flight and parachute school. In 1963, the airfield was the logistical base for disaster relief after the Vajont disaster . In the 1960s, the regional airline Aeralpi connected Belluno with Milan , Venice and Cortina d'Ampezzo , with a Twin Otter crashing near Fadalto on March 11, 1967 while approaching Belluno (see below for incidents ). In 1968 the military transferred the operation of parts of the airfield to the Aeroclub Belluno, and after the withdrawal of the last Army Aviation Unit in 1990, the rest of it. In 2007 the airfield and its facilities were modernized.
Belluno airfield is named after the Italian NCO and military pilot Arturo Dell'Oro, who was born in Vallenar , Chile . Because the on-board weapon on his aircraft had failed, he rammed an Austrian aircraft over Belluno on September 1, 1917, whereupon both of them crashed.
Incidents
- On March 11, 1967, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6-100 Twin Otter of the Italian Aeralpi ( aircraft registration I-CLAI) was flown into a mountain on the flight from Venice to its home airfield Cortina d'Ampezzo . During the alternative flight to Belluno airfield, which was continued according to visual flight rules , but in thick fog, the machine collided in a valley near the Fadalto Pass with the 1,763 meter high Col Visentin mountain. In this CFIT ( Controlled flight into terrain ) 5 of the 6 occupants were killed, both pilots and 2 of the 3 passengers. This was the first fatal accident with a DHC-6 Twin Otter and also the first total write-off.
Web links
- Aerodrome Landing Chart AIP Italia (PDF; 283 kB)
- About the Aeralpi Belluno flights in the 1960s
- A Aeralpi twin otter in Belluno
- elnoticierodelhuasco.cl via Arturo Dell'Oro
Individual evidence
- ^ Accident report DHC-6 I-CLAI , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 25, 2019.