Federico Fellini International Airport

Federico Fellini Airport is an 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...

located at Miramare, 2.7 NM southeast of Rimini

Rimini

Rimini is a medium-sized city of 142,579 inhabitants in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, and capital city of the Province of Rimini. It is located on the Adriatic Sea, on the coast between the rivers Marecchia and Ausa...

, Italy

Italy

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and 16 km (9.9 mi) away from City of San Marino, Republic of San Marino. The airport is named after Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , was an Italian film director and scriptwriter. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century...

. It is also known as Rimini-Miramare Airport (Aeroporto di Rimini-Miramare).

Facilities

The airport resides at an elevation

Elevation

The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface ....

of 41 feet (12 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway

Runway

According to ICAO a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and take-off of aircraft." Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface .- Orientation and dimensions :Runways are named by a number between 01 and 36, which is generally one tenth...

designated 13/31 with an asphalt

Asphalt

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surface measuring 2996 by 45 m (9,829.4 by 147.6 ).

The airport has the head office of Air Vallée

Air Vallée

Air Vallée S.p.A. is an airline based on the grounds of Federico Fellini Airport in Rimini, Italy. It operated scheduled services linking two destinations in Sardinia and six on mainland Italy, as well as charter services. Its main base was Aosta Airport, with hubs at Leonardo da Vinci Airport,...

Airlines and destinations

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