Rome Urbe Airport
Rome Urbe Airport Aeroporto di Roma-Urbe | |||||||||||
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AMSL 55 ft / 17 m | | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 41°57′07″N 012°29′56″E / 41.95194°N 12.49889°E | ||||||||||
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Source: Rome's Aeroclub Website[1] |
Rome Urbe Airport (
Tiber River, about 2.7 NM (5 km, 3.1 mi) inside the Greater Ring Road (Italian: Grande Raccordo Anulare or GRA), the circular motorway around the city.[3][4][5]
History
The airport was inaugurated in
racetrack was constructed, named Autodromo del Littorio ("Littorio Racetrack").[6] In 1931 a car/plane challenge took place on the racetrack inside the airport: Vittorio Suster, piloting a Caproni Ca.100, defeated Tazio Nuvolari, who drove an Alfa Romeo 8C 2300.[6]
Heavily damaged by bombardments during the war, the airport was reactivated with the current name in the first postwar years. But just a few years later the commercial activity was transferred to the
de Havilland Dash 7 STOL airliner acquired from Tyrolean Airways.[9] Their plan to link Urbe to several Italian cities failed when the company ceased operations shortly thereafter. In 2010, thanks to the investment of €800.000 by the ENAC (the civil aviation authority of Italy, that manages the airport) a new terminal was opened for helicopters.[10] On 18 September 1997 the airport was the scene for a U2 concert, part of their Pop Mart Tour: a 70,000 audience attended the event[11]
Access
The Rome Urbe Airport can be reached with public transport by bus or by train: the Nuovo Salario Station (FR1 line) is 400 m from the airport.[12]
References
- ^ "AeroClub Roma". aeroclubroma.it. Retrieved 2018-09-29.
- ^ "Roma Urbe Airport". Roma Urbe Airport. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
- ^ "Urbe Airport unofficial website". Urbe Airport. Retrieved 2018-09-29.
- ^ a b "Apertura di un nuovo aeroporto in Roma per aeroplani e idrovolanti". Scribd.com. Retrieved 2012-04-19.
- ^ "LIRU/Rome Urbe General Airport Information". acukwik.com. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
- ^ a b "Sfide F1 – Aerei". Digilander.libero.it. Retrieved 2012-04-19.
- ^ a b "Untitled Document".
- ^ "AeroClub Roma". Aeroclubroma.it. Retrieved 2018-09-29.
- ^ Italienische Reisen oder das Ende vom Anfang, Tyrolean Airways INNvolved magazine, 2007
- ^ Cecilia Cirinei (20 January 2010). "Aeroporto dell' Urbe, nuovo terminal. E una corsia in più fino allo scalo – Repubblica.it » Ricerca". Ricerca.repubblica.it. Retrieved 2012-04-19.
- ^ "√ in 70.000 a Roma applaudono la prima data italiana degli U2 versione POP MART".
- ^ "ATAC S.p.A. | Azienda per la mobilità". Atac.roma.it. 2000-12-18. Retrieved 2012-04-19.