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A small sport plane landed at the Gjirokastra aerodrome piloted by Italian pilot Antonio Guzzo to celebrate the licensing of the runway for sport flights.
It has been a nearly 30-year effort by supporters of the airport’s cause, the aeronautics federation and local institutions that made this project possible.
Resuming the status of a field aerodrome was preceded by intensive work on leveling and adaptation of the runway for small aircraft. While during the last months, the Civil Aviation Authority carried out verifications for safety and standards.
Gjirokastra Field Aerodrome according to certification specifications will allow the landing of small aircraft weighing up to 5700 kg from sunrise to sunset only in suitable atmospheric conditions. The airport is licensed only for national flights.
The next step according to experts and pilots would be the construction of a hangar for small planes, a fuel station for supply as well as some services around the aerodrome.
It is believed that the event will serve elite tourism this summer since Gjirokastra has been receiving requests for the landing of sports planes for years.
From the Gjirokastra aerodrome, the first flight was registered on August 11, 1929, on the Tirana-Gjirokastra-Tirana line, and for almost a decade at that time, even after the transformation to be an airport, civil and postal transport services were also carried out regularly an international flight to Brindisi. After 1944, civil service at South Airport was discontinued, but its runway continued to be used for military, government and humanitarian flights.
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