San Marino celebrates National Flight Day and dreams of an airport of its own
The Republic of San Marino celebrates the National Day of Flight, established by the Congress of State unanimously on 19 April of each year and whose initiatives scheduled today have been sponsored by the secretariat of state for finance, secretariat of state for Tourism, State Secretariat for the Territory and State Secretariat for Education and Culture.
Around 11 today, they tell in a joint note State Secretariats for Finance, Tourism and Culture“Landed at the Torraccia airfield a flight from Romecaptained by the president of the Areoclub San Marino, on which the Secretary of State for Tourism, Federico Pedini Amatiand the Italian senator Luca Briziarielli, president of the Città dell’Aria association”, And that“ carried a series of celebratory postcards on which the special postmark dedicated to the initiative was affixed and depicting the Cessna 172 T7 Rsm supplied to Areoclub San Marino ”.
There National day of flight “The official hearing continued with the concession to the representatives of the Areoclub San Marino, the ‘Città dell’Aria’ association and the Aeroclub Italia by Excellent Captains Regent, Oscar Mina and Paolo Rondelli“.
I secretaries of state Marco Gatti, Stefano Canti and Federico Pedini Amati“In their greeting interventions, they agreed in defining the National Flight Day and the initiatives connected to it of high value and in the development of the aeronautical sector and the Torraccia aerodrome which requires strategic interventions aimed at improving its services and Opportunities”.
“The aerodrome development project – said the Secretary of State Marco Gatti – will serve to expand the freedom and speed of movement and will in fact increase national sovereignty. It will foster the development of interconnections that are essential in the global world. I am a firm believer in the need to invest in this development for the benefit of the country’s economy “.
“The establishment of the National Day of Flight approved by the Congress of State on the proposal of our secretariat – explained Secretary of State Stefano Canti in his speech – serves to keep alive and preserve the culture of flying and to remind us that San Marino has a history in the field of aviation. It is an initiative with multiple values, among others that of reminding us of the importance of having an airfield in the area to be developed and made to grow. I take this opportunity to remind you that we are working on the asphalting of the Torraccia track and to plan further improvements to the structure “.
“It is almost useless to reiterate how strategic the development of the Torraccia airfield is also for the tourism sector and how important its adaptation and constant improvement of the services it offers are – said Secretary of State Federico Pedini Amati – and to thank the friend senator Luca Briziarielli, who proposed the establishment of the Flight Day together with the members of the Areoclub San Marino. I had the honor and pleasure of flying with the senator from Rome to San Marino, she is a beautiful one and, as secretary of state with responsibility for the post office, it was a pleasure to experience the postcards with the cancellation that Poste Marino has dedicated to ‘initiative”.
In his greeting speech, during which he retraced the history ofAeroclub San Marino from the foundation dated 1985 to the present day, the president Edgardo Casali “He recounted the numerous initiatives that the association has carried out, thrilling those present with passionate stories”. And, returning to the need to expand the airfield, he concluded by saying that “if a kilometer-long road might lead nowhere, remember that a kilometer-long runway can take us all over the world”.
The Italian Senator Luca Briziarielli, president of the “Città dell’Aria” association and promoter of the National Flight Day together with Aeroclub San Marino, also spoke at the hearing. Briziarielli “spoke of the friendship that binds him to San Marino and announced new collaborations with local associations and state secretariats, defining a starting point for new shared projects on the Day of celebrations on April 19”.
With a message, the president of the Aeroclub Italia, Giuseppe Miniscalco“He wanted to make his friends of the San Marino Aeroclub feel his closeness, recalling that he had received from the Italian government the authorization to sign the Italy-San Marino mutual recognition agreement on the port or sport flight for the liberalization of the activity in the two countries “.
In their greeting, the Most Excellent Captains Regent “expressed their satisfaction with the membership and membership of the Republic of San Marino in the projects of the City of the Initiativaria association represented at the Palazzo by Senator Luca Briziarielli”.
“The establishment of this celebratory day, which follows up the Agenda approved unanimously by the Great and General Council – read the Captains Regent – testifies how deeply rooted the culture of flight is in our country and how much it also knows stronger than the years, it has infected more and more San Marino citizens ”.
Their Excellencies also focused on the importance of developing an airport site: “An airport site that fully complies with our state reality can in fact play an important role in the growth of San Marino and represent an extremely precious resource for a country such as ours is an ancient and deeply rooted tourist tradition which, due to its historical, institutional and landscape peculiarities, has been inscribed on the Unesco World Heritage list “.