Some Italian and foreign military aircraft received support at the Brindisi Airport Detachment of the Department; in particular, the Department provided technical and logistical support, ensuring ground assistance, air traffic control and meteorological services, as well as coordinating operations for refueling aircraft in transit.
A PC-12 Pilatus aircraft of the United States Army (US Army), in fact, landed in Brindisi from Stuttgart (Germany) and, immediately after the refueling operations, took off towards Athens (Greece). The same aircraft made another stopover in Brindisi to return to Germany.
An Airbus A-330 aircraft of the Royal Air Force (RAF), coming from Brize Norton (United Kingdom) for a training flight, performed the refueling operations and took off to reach its home base.
Finally, a C-27J of the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa performed three landings at the Salento detachment during its training activities.
The Brindisi Airport Detachment provides, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, assistance to air navigation services for civil aviation, to aircraft passing through NATO countries, providing the functions of Command of the Air Guard through logistical and administrative support to the Armed Forces Entities in the Brindisi area.
