Abruzzo Airport (IATA: PSR, ICAO: LIBP) is an airport located near Pescara, Italy. It is located approximately 4 km from the centre of Pescara, about 180 km from Rome, a 2 hour drive by car on a motorway across the Appennine mountains. Is the only international airport in the Abruzzo region. Open to civilian traffic since 1996, has seen over the years more and more increase the number of transit passengers mainly due to the low-cost airlines and ...
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Abruzzo Airport (IATA: PSR, ICAO: LIBP) is an airport located near Pescara, Italy. It is located approximately 4 km from the centre of Pescara, about 180 km from Rome, a 2 hour drive by car on a motorway across the Appennine mountains. Is the only international airport in the Abruzzo region. Open to civilian traffic since 1996, has seen over the years more and more increase the number of transit passengers mainly due to the low-cost airlines and flights.
In 1973 the historian, Bruce Barrymore Halpenny, who was living in Abruzzo, organised a British Caledonian BAC 111 to take off from Genoa to Pescara as a test flight for a large commercial aircraft to test the feasibility of the approach and landing at Pescara. With the British Caledonian chief pilot an (Ex-RAF) and Halpenny (also Ex-RAF) on board this manoeuvre was successfully accomplished; now opening up the airport and the region for tourism. Halpenny then arranged for a British Caledonian BAC 111 to take off from Gatwick London...
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