Fano Airfield Explained

Fano Airfield
Icao:LIDF
Type:Public
Location:Fano, Italy
Pushpin Map:Italy
Footnotes:Source:World Aero Data

Fano Airport is a recreational aerodrome in Italy, located 1km (01miles) southeast of Fano and 100NaN0 northwest of Mondolfo in the province of Pesaro and Urbino in the Marche region of Italy.

The aerodrome 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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