The works to transform it into a real airport began in 1936, where for years there was only a makeshift camp and once finished, with the order sheet no 7 of the 5 March 1939, the renewed installation took the name of 3rd Class Armed Airport and became the seat of the first period school for pilots non-commissioned officers.įrom 1944 to the 1946 it hosted the Bomber and Fighter Training School, to which they joined, at the end of the conflict, also Transport e, from 1947, also Air Navigation courses.
from Bari.įrosinone airport, named after Captain Girolamo Moscardini who fell in 27 years with his Breda 33 the 3 August 1932 in the skies of Castellanza, it is located in southern Lazio, in the area called Ciociaria. The Wing is employed by the AM / 3 ^ R.A. Below you can see, thanks to the Blue Troupe of the Air Force which kindly granted its use, a rare photograph of the TH 500B in the white UN livery used in that theater.Ĭurrently, employed by the 72 ° Stormo, named after the Gold Medal for Military Valor Pilot Sergeant Marcello De Salvia, the 208th Group operate on TH-500B and UH-139, the GIP (Vocational Education Group), the 472nd STO Group (Operational Technical Service), the 572nd SLO Group (Operational Logistic Service), the GEA (Aircraft Efficiency Group) and the Forces Protection Company. The latter mission will expire in a few days 20 years since the return of helicopters from the red lands of the tormented country of north-eastern Africa. In addition to the institutional tasks, it is impossible not to mention the commitment abroad, with the deployments in Albania and Kosovo in 1999, when the helicopters and personnel were deployed at Dakovica airport to support the Italian and NATO contingents of KFOR (Kosovo FORces) and, from 2000, in Eritrea as part of the UNMEE mission (United Nation Mission Ethiopia-Eritrea).
Today the Stormo is equipped with TH 500B and HH helicopters 139, the first arrived in May 1990 and the seconds in the course of 2014. The center, the 15 February 1960, will become "School of Helicopter Flight A.M.", equipped with AB 47G2, AB 47J e, later, AB 204B.Ĭurrently the 72 ° Stormo is the only military school for helicopter pilots in Italy (the Navy trains both fixed-wing and rotary-wing pilots abroad) and in its history it has formed more than 5000 rotary wing pilots of which only the 20% about belonging to the Blue Army! The ward was then transferred, starting from April of '55, to its current location, at the "Girolamo Moscardini" airport in Frosinone, where it changed its name becoming "Helicopter Center", then articulated on the 208 ° Scuola Volo Group (the "Two hundred excellent", as they like to call themselves) and on the 209th Gruppo Volo Impiego. Equipped with the Bell 47D-1 and WS-51, it was the first AM unit dedicated to the rotary wing, with the first helicopters delivered in December of '54. The 72nd has as its motto "MULTUM IN PARVO" or "VERY WITH LITTLE" that, as we'll see, it really is very spot on.Įstablished at the Frosinone airport on 21 June 1985, the 72 ° Stormo draws its origins from the Helicopter Training Department, established at the Urbe Airport, smell, on February 1st 1953.
WING COMMANDER LOWER JOYSTICK SENSITIVITY LICENSE
I finally arrive in Frosinone, at the "Girolamo Moscardini" military airport where the Stormo is based whose task is to carry out the planned courses for obtaining the Military Pilot's License - Helicopter Line for Air Force pilots, as well as courses for obtaining the military helicopter pilot license of the other Armed Forces. They date back to February 2020 my first contacts with the Air Force and in the following September the hoped-for confirmation of being expected by the 72 ° Stormo "Marcello de Salvia" but, on pain of the continuing pandemic situation, the awaited visit has been postponed until the last days of May just ended.
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