🇮🇹 Gorizia Duca d'Aosta Airfield

The Gorizia "Amedeo Duca d'Aosta" Airport (LIPG) is a small airport located in Gorizia (GO), Italy, adjacent to the Slovenian border, straddling the municipalities of Gorizia and Savogna d'Isonzo.

• Type of facility: It is classified as a small airport without scheduled commercial service. The current managing body, Società Consortile Aeroporto Duca d'Aosta, focuses on the development and management of airport infrastructure and the promotion of aeronautical, tourist, sporting, and cultural activities.
• Location and basic runway information:
• Coordinates: 45°54’24’’N – 13°35’57’’E.
• Elevation: 63 meters (207 feet).
• Runways: It has one active unpaved (grass) runway, 09/27, measuring 1,250 x 30 meters (4,101 x 98 feet). A former runway, 04/22, is closed.
• Airspace: "G".
• Traffic allowed: VFR (Visual Flight Rules) for national and community tourist traffic.
• Known uses: The airport is open to national and community tourist traffic. Historically, it served as a flight school, a base for various military squadrons, and later for civil and sports flights after World War II. Scheduled commercial service ceased in 1961 with the opening of Ronchi dei Legionari airport.
• Historical significance: The first Gorizia airport was established by the Austrians and inaugurated on January 15, 1912, as a flight school. It played a significant role in Italian military aviation, particularly in the 1930s, and was associated with Duke Amedeo of Savoy-Aosta, after whom it is named. It was one of Italy's busiest airports in the early 1940s.

*Sources researched: aeroportogorizia.it, ourairports.com, airportroutes.com*