The 1st Reception and Sorting Group of Novara has celebrated the 70th anniversary of its establishment
The Department, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Andrea Bovone, reached the historic milestone. On April 28th at the Logistics Zone of the Cameri Airport, in the presence of the Chief of the General Support Service of the Brigade Pietro Spagnoli, the ceremony for the 70th anniversary of the 1st Reception and Dispatch Group took place. The event, which saw the participation of the Prefect […]
The Commander of the Brazilian Air Force visits Italy
Lieutenant Brigadier Carlos de Almeida Baptista Junior met the Chief of Staff of the Brazilian Air Force and visited the 61st Squadron On the 27th and 28th of April, the Commander of the Brazilian Air Force (ComFAB), Lieutenant Brigadier Carlos de Almeida Baptista Junior, accompanied by his Chief of Staff, Major Brig. do Ar Ary […]
Foreign Military Attache Visits the 70th Squadron
The selection and training processes carried out on-site at the Pontina Flight School have been illustrated. A delegation of foreign Military Personnel accredited to the Government of the Italian Republic, led by Colonel Francesco Giordano, Deputy Chief of the Security and Military Attendant Department of the II Department of Information and Security of the General Staff of the Defense, visited the school […]
Kuwait: new milestones for the Italian Air Force aircraft of the IT NCC AIR
The contribution of the Air Force assets of the mission in Kuwait deployed in the fight against Daesh The Italian National Contingent Air Command deployed in Kuwait and Iraq has seen in the last month the achievement of new and important operational milestones by the air assets of the Air Force assigned to it as part of the National First Parthica Operation embedded in the International Operation Inherent Resolve and established to counter and prevent the threat […]
Press release no. 16/2022
Comicon 2022: For the first time the Air Force at the International Comics Fair in Naples
Eurofighter: a record flight over the skies of Iraq
The Air Task Force – Kuwait, as part of Operation Inherent Resolve, has reached a new milestone: 8 continuous hours in flight for Eurofighter aircraft. On April 14, as part of the Inherent Resolve mission, two aircraft of the Typhoon Task Group, based at the Italian National Contingent Command – Air in Kuwait, carried out an operational reconnaissance mission over […]
Infant in life-threatening danger: Air Force helicopter urgently transports a baby one day old from Reggio Calabria to Taormina
In the dead of night, a crew from the 82nd Combat Search And Rescue Center (CSAR) of the 15th Stormo, based in Trapani, intervened to transport a newborn baby of just one day old from the ’Riuniti Bianchi-Melacrino“ Hospital in Reggio Calabria to the San Vincenzo Hospital in Taormina (ME) to allow him to receive the necessary care following a serious neonatal pathology. The crew, on high alert […]
Life-saving flight: Six-month-old baby urgently transported from Alghero to Genoa on an Air Force flight
A 6-month-old baby in imminent life-threatening danger was urgently transferred aboard a Falcon 50 from the 31st Squadron at Ciampino. The flight of the Falcon 50 of the 31st Squadron of the Italian Air Force, which transported a very small patient just six months old in imminent life-threatening danger, has recently concluded. The transport, which took place with the […]
Air Academy: Oath taking course “Centauro VI”
The solemn oath, sealed by the traditional passing of the Tricolour Flags, took place in the presence of the Undersecretary of State for Defence, Mr. Giorgio Mulè Today, Wednesday 13 April, the Oath and Initiation Ceremony for the students of the 1st class of the Regular Courses of the Institute, the Centauro VI Course, took place at the Aeronautical Academy in Pozzuoli. […]
Niger: a delegation from the COVI and the SMD visits MISIN
A delegation from the COVI and the SMD met the personnel of the Bilateral Support Mission in the Republic of Niger (MISIN). The Chief of Staff of the Inter-Service Operational Command (COVI), accompanied by the Chief of Operations and the Commander of the Inter-Service Intelligence Center (CII), met the personnel of the Bilateral Support Mission in the Republic of Niger. […]