Bresso airfield
| Bresso airfield | |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | LIMB |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 148 m (486 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 10 km north of Milan city center |
| Street | A4 , SP5 |
| train | Sesto San Giovanni train station, Metro M1 |
| Local transport | bus |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1912 |
| operator | ENAC |
| surface | 87 hectares |
| Start-and runway | |
| 18/36 | 1080 m × 30 m asphalt |
The Bresso Airport is located in the northern Italian region of Lombardy , about ten kilometers north of the center of Milan , in the field of community Bresso . The aerodrome is used by the Aeroclub Milan and by general aviation .
Transport links
The airfield is located in Milan's Nordpark ( Parco Nord Milano ) on the A4 motorway and on the SP 5 multi-lane road ( Via Fulvio Testi ). Sesto San Giovanni train station is three kilometers east of the airport . From there, the city center can be reached with line 1 of the Metropolitana di Milano .
Infrastructure
The airfield has an asphalted, 1080 meter long runway , which runs in a north-south direction (18/36). In the west there is a storage area and maintenance hangars, in the east is the former military part.
history
The airfield was built in 1912. In the first few years it was also known as "Sesto San Giovanni airfield" or " Cinisello Balsamo airfield" after the two neighboring communities . In the two world wars the airfield was used for military purposes. The Breda company built airplanes here and also trained pilots. After the Second World War , Bresso was the base of the 3rd Army Aviation Regiment until 1998 . From 1927 the airfield was also used for general aviation. In 1960, the Milan Aeroclub moved from Milan Linate Airport to Bresso because Linate no longer had adequate operating conditions due to the expansion of the airport there. In 1965, the former grass runway in Bresso was paved. Despite the increasing flight operations, large parts of the airfield were integrated into the Milan Nordpark and even called for the withdrawal of the aeroclub, which had meanwhile been named after its chairman Franco Bordoni-Bisleri who had lost his life .
Incidents
- On April 30, 1944, the Fiat G.18 V transport aircraft with the aircraft registration I-ELCE was destroyed in a bombing raid on Bresso.
Web links
- Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
- Aeroclub Milan (English / Italian)
- History of the airfield (Italian)
- Pictures of the airfield on Airliners.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ accident report Fiat G.18 I-ELCE , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on 2 June 2020th