Bresso Airfield

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Bresso Airfield (Italian:Aeroporto di Bresso,ICAO:LIMB), also known asAeroporto Giampiero Clerici, is anaerodrome inBresso, in theMilan metropolitan area.^[1]

Bresso Airfield

Aeroporto G. Clerici

Aerial view of the aerodrome

IATA:none
ICAO:LIMB

Summary

Airport type

Public

Serves

Milan, Italy

Location

Bresso

Opened

1912 (1912)

Elevation AMSL

146 m / 479 ft

Coordinates

45°32′22″N009°12′08″E / 45.53944°N 9.20222°E /45.53944; 9.20222

Map

LIMB

Location of aerodrome on map of Milan

Location of aerodrome on map of Lombardy

LIMB

Location of Lombardy region in Italy

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
18/36	1,080	3,543	Asphalt

Originally built in 1912, the field served as afactory airfield until the nearbyBreda factory expanded its production to military aircraft forWorld War I.^[2] From 1931 to 1933 it housed theRegia Aeronautica's Terzo Stormo. On April 30, 1944, the Breda factory and the airfield were heavily bombed by 53 AmericanBoeing B-17. Seven aircraft and a few hangars went completely destroyed. At the end ofWorld War II the airport was mostly used as a military flying training camp and to field fighter aircraft as part of the defence system of the city.

In 1960, it became the permanent site of theAero Club Milano. Since then the airport mostly serves as ageneral aviation airfield for flying club activity, touristic flights and air taxi.^[3] It also hosts a base of the state helicopter emergency serviceElisoccorso.^[4]

On June 3, 2012, on the occasion of the seventhWorld Meeting of Families promoted by the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI celebrated a mass on the tarmac in front of a million of pilgrims.^[5]