Torino-Aeritalia Airport (Italian: Aeroporto Torino-Aeritalia "Edoardo Agnelli" ) , built in 1916, is the historical airport

Airport

An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...

 of Turin

Turin

Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...

 in north Italy

Italy

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. It is located off Corso Marche, some 5 km from the city centre.

Commercial flights moved to Torino-Caselle in 1953 and today Torino-Aeritalia is used for tourist flights and as a flying school, both for gliding

Gliding

Gliding is a recreational activity and competitive air sport in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to remain airborne. The word soaring is also used for the sport.Gliding as a sport began in the 1920s...

 and powered flight. The is also a helipad

Helipad

Helipad is a common abbreviation for helicopter landing pad, a landing area for helicopters. While helicopters are able to operate on a variety of relatively flat surfaces, a fabricated helipad provides a clearly marked hard surface away from obstacles where a helicopter can safely...

 for the use of air ambulance

Air ambulance

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One of the airport’s buildings was redesigned in 1958 by the Torinese architect Carlo Mollino

Carlo Mollino

- Biography :Born in Turin, Piedmont, Carlo Mollino was the son of Eugenio Mollino, an engineer. As he grew up, Carlo Mollino became interested in a variety of topics that were as outrageous as his art, such as design, architecture, the occult, and race cars....

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