Valbrembo Airport
| Valbrembo Aeroporto di Valbrembo Airport |
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| Characteristics | |||
| ICAO code | LILV | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Height above MSL | 231 m (758 ft ) | ||
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| Distance from the city center | 0.5 km west of Valbrembo | ||
| Street | A4 , SS342 , SS470dir, Via Delle Ghiaie 1 | ||
| train | Station. Ponte San Pietro | ||
| Local transport | bus | ||
| Basic data | |||
| opening | 1972 | ||
| operator | Aeroclub Volovelistico Alpino | ||
| Runways | |||
| 02/20 | 700 m × 15 m asphalt | ||
| 02 / 20GLD | 700 m × 50 m grass | ||
The Valbrembo airport ( it .: Aeroporto di Valbrembo “Sergio Aldo Capoferri” ) is located in the northern Italian region of Lombardy , around 8 km west of Bergamo near the town of Valbrembo .
Infrastructure and use
The airfield, located at the foot of the Alps between the Brembo River in the west and the town of Valbremba in the east, has a 700 meter long asphalt runway and a grass runway running parallel to it, both facing 02/20. On the eastern 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 glider club Aeroclub Volovelistico Alpino (AVA), which also has a flying school there . The company Cantor Air has set up a flight school and repair shop (Cantor Air Tech) on site .
history
The first airfield was set up in Osio Sotto in the vicinity of Bergamo in 1911 . In 1916, between Brembate di Sopra and Ponte San Pietro , a few hundred meters southwest of today's Valbrembo airfield, the opening of a military airfield followed , where the Airone company settled after the First World War . After initially focusing on aerial photography and pilot training, it also became active in aircraft construction and aircraft maintenance . In 1927 it changed its name to Cantieri Aeronautici Bergamaschi (CAB) and in 1938, after it was taken over by Giovanni Battista Caproni , to Caproni Aeronautica Bergamasca . It built various types of aircraft for Caproni, including Reggiane during World War II . This airfield area was completely built over after the war. In the 1930s, more airfields were created near Bergamo, including the Valbrembo airfield, which never achieved the importance of the neighboring Brembate / Ponte San Pietro airfield. From 1972 glider pilots modernized the airfield under the direction of the engineer Sergio Aldo Capoferri. The airfield is named after Capoferri, the long-time chairman of the local air sports club.