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Rome Urbe Airport

Rome, Italy

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Location

Rome · 62 · Italy

Position

41.952°, 12.502° · 55 ft elev.

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Rome's historic general aviation and light aircraft airport.

Opened

1928

Location

Rome, Italy

Rome Urbe Airport (ICAO: LIRU) is a small general aviation aerodrome located in the northern suburbs of Rome, Italy, near the Tiber River. It serves private pilots, flight training schools, skydiving operations, and charter flights, and is one of several aerodromes serving the greater Rome area. The airport does not handle scheduled commercial airline traffic, which is instead served by Rome's two main airports: Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino (FCO) and Ciampino (CIA). Urbe is primarily used for light aircraft, helicopters, and aerial work operations. Because of its location relatively close to the city center compared to Fiumicino, Urbe has historically been a convenient base for business aviation and emergency services operations in the Roman area.

Getting to & from

The airport is accessible by road via the Via Salaria corridor in northern Rome, with no dedicated rail or metro link.

Airlines here

No scheduled commercial airlines operate at Rome Urbe; the airport serves general aviation, flight schools, and charter operators.

Notable facts

›Rome Urbe is one of the oldest aerodromes in the Rome area, dating to the late 1920s.
›The airport has no IATA code as it does not handle scheduled commercial passenger services.
›It is located approximately 6 km north of central Rome, making it one of the closest aerodromes to the city center.
›Skydiving and parachuting activities have been among the regular operations conducted at Urbe.
›The airport operates under visual flight rules (VFR) conditions primarily and has a single grass/paved runway.

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Rome Urbe Airport is a small civilian airport in Rome, situated in the northern part of the city, between Via Salaria and the Tiber River, about 2.7 NM inside the Greater Ring Road, the circular motorway around the city.

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