Venice-Lido Airport

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The airfield Venice - Lido (it.: Aeroporto di Venezia- Lido " Giovanni Nicelli ", formerly Aeroporto di Venezia San Nicolò called ) is located in the northern Italian region Veneto, about three kilometers east of the city center of Venice, on the Venice Lido. The airfield is used by the Aero Club of Venice and general aviation. From 1926 to 1953 he was the commercial airport of Venice.

Infrastructure

The second walk to the main entrance of the lagoon of Venice airport can be reached by public transportation on the waterway. In the southwest of the airfield at the terminal building, there is a dock for motorboats. The airfield has a half a mile long grass runway.

History

The airfield was built in 1915 as a military airfield. After the First World War, he was named after the fighter pilot Giovanni Nicelli. Commercial aviation was wrapped in the 1920s in Italy, mainly with flying boats from, what you on the neighboring island Vignole (also Sant'Andrea ) purpose built handling facilities. 1926 permit to the civilian joint use of conventional airfield San Nicolò on the Lido, in particular for the airline Transadriatica that offered, among other scheduled flights to Vienna, Graz and Munich. In the 1930s, the airfield became one of the busiest in Italy. In 1935 a new terminal building was opened. In addition, there were larger aircraft maintenance facilities, which later became the Aeronavali Officine di Venezia originated. Following the renewed military use during World War II, the commercial air traffic was resumed in 1947 with scheduled flights to Rome. Since the airport for new commercial aircraft soon became too small, the first airlines in 1953 Moved to the nearly 30 kilometers away, situated on the mainland airport Treviso. It began a partial bitterly fought debate between the supporters of the airport on the Lido and the proponents of a new building on the mainland. Since a reasonable extension would have been connected to the Lido with great difficulty, finally the decision was made for the new airport Venice Marco Polo, which was opened in 1960. The Officine Aeronavali, which were later taken over by Alenia Aeronautica had to move for reasons of space later on the new airport. Nearly four decades kept the Aero Club Venice the airfield before the complete decay. Around the turn of the millennium was a renewed interest in the traditional airfield, which was then restored in the style of the earlier commercial airport.