Calcinate del Pesce Airport
| Calcinate del Pesce Airport Aeroporto di Calcinate del Pesce |
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| Characteristics | |||
| ICAO code | LILC | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Height above MSL | 243 m (797 ft ) | ||
| Transport links | |||
| Distance from the city center | 5 km west of Varese | ||
| Street | A8 , SP1 / Lungolago di Calcinate | ||
| train | Bhf. Morosolo-Casciago | ||
| Local transport | bus | ||
| Basic data | |||
| opening | 1962 | ||
| operator | Aero Club Adele Orsi | ||
| Runways | |||
| 10/28 | 600 m × 50 m grass | ||
| 10/28 (TWY) | 450 m × 15 m asphalt | ||
The Calcinate del Pesce airport ( it .: Aeroporto di Calcinate del Pesce “Paolo Contri” ) is located in the northern Italian region of Lombardy , around 5 km west of Varese near the town of Calcinate del Pesce. Since the airfield is in the area of the city of Varese, it is also called Varese-Calcinate del Pesce airfield. It is to be distinguished from the Varese-Venegono airport .
Infrastructure and use
The airfield, located on the shores of Lake Varese , has a grass runway (main runway) 600 meters long and 50 meters wide with orientation 10/28 and a parallel asphalt runway with a length of 450 meters. On the northern side of the airfield there are smaller taxiways, aprons, halls and other handling facilities. The airfield is used for general aviation . Gliding is particularly important . The airfield is operated by the local aviation club Aero Club Adele Orsi (ACAO), which also has a flying school there .
history
The aircraft manufacturing company Macchi , founded in Varese in 1913 , used Lake Varese to test its seaplanes . The Macchi plant with the associated seaplane base was located in Schiranna, a few hundred meters southeast of today's Calcinate del Pesce airfield. In line with the trend at the time, people soon thought of a system that would use both water and land planes and thus an airfield with a landing stage on the lakeshore and a grass runway. The engineer Pedoja drew up a first plan for this.
In its current form, the Calcinate airfield was opened on March 25, 1962 and named after the engineer Paolo Contri, who died at the end of 1961, under whose direction it was planned and built. In 1962 the glider club Aeroclub Volovelistico Alta Lombardia (AVAL) was founded, which was renamed Aero Club Adele Orsi in 1998 and bears the name of the glider master Adele Orsi. Today the club is the largest glider club in Italy.