Fano Airport

Fano Airport
IATA: noneICAO: LIDF
Summary
Airport type Public
Location Fano, Italy
Coordinates 43°49′25.62″N 013°01′32.09″E / 43.8237833°N 13.0255806°E / 43.8237833; 13.0255806
Source:World Aero Data
Fano Airport
Location of Fano Airport, Italy

Fano Airport is an airport in Italy (ICAO: LIDF). located 1 km southeast of Fano and 10 km northwest of Mondolfo in the province of Pesaro and Urbino in the Marche region of Italy.

The airport is used for general aviation, with no commercial airline service.

World War II

During World War II Fano Airfield was built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers as a temporary wartime airfield with a hard earth or pierced steel planking (PSP) runway and parking apron. With few or no permanent structures, tents were used for ground support operations and personnel billeting. It was used as an operational airfield by the USAAF Twelfth and Fifteenth Air Forces in late 1944 and in 1945 until the end of the war.

With the withdrawal of the US forces, the facility was turned over to the local government in late 1945.

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References

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