Casarsa della Delizia military airfield

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Casarsa della Delizia military airfield
“Francesco Baracca”
Casarsa della Delizia military airfield (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
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Characteristics
ICAO code LIDK
Coordinates

45 ° 57 '11 "  N , 12 ° 49' 8"  E Coordinates: 45 ° 57 '11 "  N , 12 ° 49' 8"  E
Height above MSL 44 m (144  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 2 km west of Casarsa della Delizia
Street Strada Statale 13 Pontebbana
train Casarsa train station
Local transport bus
Basic data
opening 1915
operator Esercito Italiano
Start-and runway
06/24 649 m × 30 m grass

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The Casarsa della Delizia military airfield is located in the northern Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia , about 15 kilometers east of the city of Pordenone and two kilometers west of Casarsa della Delizia . It is a relatively small army airfield.

Infrastructure and use

The military airfield is located in the north-eastern Italian plain, around seven kilometers west of the Tagliamento River between state road 13 in the north and the Venice-Udine railway in the south. It has a grass runway that is around 600 meters long (06/24). On the south side there are aprons with heliports and maintenance hangars, in the north further airfield facilities, in the east larger barracks . On the airfield which is the fifth Army Aviation Regiment Rigel stationed that with combat helicopters of type A 129 and transport helicopters of the pattern AB 205 is equipped. The latter are to be replaced by NH90 . The Casarsa della Delizia military airfield is named after the fighter pilot Francesco Baracca , who fell on the Piave in 1918 .

history

The airfield, originally laid out as an airship base, was built in its current form from the mid-1950s. During the Cold War , a large part of the Italian army was concentrated in northeastern Italy , where it was supposed to repel a possible attack by Warsaw Pact forces . Most of the V Corps , which among other things consisted of the Ariete Armored Division, was in Friuli-Venezia Giulia .

In Casarsa della Delizia there were parts of the corps troops of the V Corps, including the 5th Army Aviation Regiment. In the barracks, just east of the airport, much of which was Division troops of the armored division housed Ariete, at the airport itself, the Army Aviation Squadron was stationed Division. Thus Casarsa was one of the more important military locations in the lowlands in the northeast of the country during the Cold War. Here, preparations were made for the case of defense, especially at the Cellina-Meduna military training area , located a few kilometers northwest of Casarsa , which is why army aviators often flew missions there.

The history of the Army Aviation in Casarsa began in 1956 with a small helicopter unit on AB 47 , which was expanded in 1963 with new AB 204 and finally received regimental status. The 5th Regiment flew the AB 204, AB 205 and AB 206 models as well as L-19 propeller aircraft in the 1970s . Around 1990 one introduced the newer models A 109 and A 129. In 1996 the 5th Army Aviation Regiment relocated to the Campoformido military airfield located around 30 kilometers to the east , in 1998 it contributed at short notice to the establishment of the new 7th Army Aviation Regiment in Rimini and returned to Casarsa della Delizia that same year. Since 2000 it has been under the Friuli Air Mobility Brigade .

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