Lucca airfield
| Lucca-Tassignano Airport “Aeroporto di Lucca Tassignano” |
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| Characteristics | |||
| ICAO code | LIQL | ||
| IATA code | LCV | ||
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| Height above MSL | 12 m (39 ft ) | ||
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| Distance from the city center | 6 km east of Lucca | ||
| Street | Via del Casalino, Via Romana, A11 | ||
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| opening | 1932 | ||
| operator | Aeroporto di Capannori SpA | ||
| surface | 87 hectares | ||
| Start-and runway | |||
| 10/28 | 910 m × 18 m asphalt | ||
The airport Lucca-Tassignano ( it .: Aeroporto di Lucca-Tassignano ) is located in the Italian region of Tuscany , about six kilometers east of Lucca , in the area of the municipality of Capannori , near Tassignano. The airfield is used by general aviation .
Infrastructure and use
The airfield, located on the plain of Lucca, has an asphalted, 910-meter-long runway (10/28) running in west-east direction, which runs parallel to the A11 autostrada passing immediately south of the airfield . In the southwest of the airfield there is a 4700 m² apron with four hangars. The airport is operated by Aeroporto di Capannori SpA, around 90 percent of which is owned by the municipality of Capannori. The main user is the Aeroclub Lucca, which also maintains a flight school on site. The airfield is usually closed on Mondays.
The airport is connected to Tassignano, Capannori and downtown Lucca via Via del Casalino and Via Romana. There is no bus connection to the airport. Taxis can be ordered at the airport.
history
The airfield was set up as a civil airfield on November 29, 1932. In 1935 it was taken over by the Regia Aeronautica , which set up a flight school here and then expanded the airfield until 1938. Towards the end of the Second World War, the airfield was destroyed by withdrawing German units.
After the war, the Italian military set up a landing zone in the northern area of the airfield for paratroopers stationed in Pisa and Livorno , while the southern part was left to general aviation and in 1981 was completely transferred to the civil aviation administration. The company was initially taken over by a consortium , and from 1999 onwards by a GmbH , which later became today's operating company.