On the island of Sicily

Sicily

Sicily is a region of Italy, and is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Along with the surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana Sicily has a rich and unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, music, literature,...

 there are 6 main airports and several smaller airfields open to the general aviation

General aviation

General aviation is one of the two categories of civil aviation. It refers to all flights other than military and scheduled airline and regular cargo flights, both private and commercial. General aviation flights range from gliders and powered parachutes to large, non-scheduled cargo jet flights...

. Also on the islands of Lampedusa

Lampedusa

Lampedusa is the largest island of the Italian Pelagie Islands in the Mediterranean Sea. The comune of Lampedusa e Linosa is part of the Sicilian province of Agrigento which also includes the smaller islands of Linosa and Lampione. It is the southernmost part of Italy. Tunisia, which is about ...

 and Pantelleria

Pantelleria

Pantelleria , the ancient Cossyra, is an Italian island in the Strait of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea, southwest of Sicily and just east of the Tunisian coast. Administratively Pantelleria is a comune belonging to the Sicilian province of Trapani...

, which are part of Sicily, there are two small airports. In 2010 collectively all airports of Sicily have handled 12.372.086 passengers.

History

The first airfield to open on the island was Catania Airport in May

May

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 1924 followed by Palermo-Boccadifalco Airport

Palermo-Boccadifalco Airport

Palermo-Boccadifalco Airport , also known as Emanuele Notarbartolo Airport, is the elder of two facilities which serve the Sicilian capital Palermo, in Italy. Located on the outskirts of the city, just before Monte Cuccio, it is one of the oldest airports in the country. Today it houses a Botanical...

 that was opened the 28 June 1931. In the 1930s during the Italian fascist era

Italian Fascism

Italian Fascism also known as Fascism with a capital "F" refers to the original fascist ideology in Italy. This ideology is associated with the National Fascist Party which under Benito Mussolini ruled the Kingdom of Italy from 1922 until 1943, the Republican Fascist Party which ruled the Italian...

 several airfields like Trapani-Milo Airport

Trapani-Milo Airport

Trapani-Milo Airport was the first airport to serve the Sicilian city of Trapani, in Italy. It is located on the outskirts of the city. In July 2001 the airbase was intitoled to the Italian aerospace engineer Luigi Broglio.-History:...

 (1936), Comiso Airport

Comiso Airport

Comiso Airport , also known as Vincenzo Magliocco Airport is located in the Sicilian province of Ragusa, 5 km from Comiso and 15 km from Ragusa. It changed from military to civil use during 2005-2008...

 (1937), Pantelleria Airport

Pantelleria Airport

Pantelleria Airport is an airport in Pantelleria, Italy. It is distant 5 km from the town centre and runs both regular and charter flights from and to Sicily and mainland Italy.-Airlines and destinations:-External links:**...

 (1938) and Ponte Olivo Airfield

Ponte Olivo Airfield

Ponte Olivo Airfield is an abandoned pre-World War II airport and later wartime military airfield in Sicily, 3 km north of Gela. Its last known use was by the United States Army Air Force Twelfth Air Force in 1944 during the Italian Campaign.-History:...

 were built to control the Med

Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant...

 but during World War II

World War II

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 all airfields on the islands were heavily bombarded by the British Royal Air Force

Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Formed on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world...

 based on Malta

Malta

Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...

. The construction of Trapani-Chinisia Airfield was completed in 1949 and Trapani-Milo Airport

Trapani-Milo Airport

Trapani-Milo Airport was the first airport to serve the Sicilian city of Trapani, in Italy. It is located on the outskirts of the city. In July 2001 the airbase was intitoled to the Italian aerospace engineer Luigi Broglio.-History:...

 was closed. In 1959 the Americans had taken over the old airfield at Sigonella that had been abandoned since the end of the war. During the 1950s Palermo's airport was the 3rd airport for volume of traffic in Italy

Italy

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 and construction for a bigger airport began. The new Palermo-Punta Raisi Airport opened in 1960. In 1961 with the completion of Trapani-Birgi Airport commercial flights were moved to the new airprot leaving only military activity at Trapani-Chinisa that closed in 1970. In 1968 was completed the Lampedusa Airport

Lampedusa Airport

Lampedusa Airport is an airport in Lampedusa, Province of Agrigento, Sicily, Italy . It is located a few hundred meters away from the city centre, and reaches its traffic peaks in the summer period, as several airlines run flights to the island for tourism-related reasons.-Airlines and...

.

This is a list of 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...

s in Sicily

Sicily

Sicily is a region of Italy, and is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Along with the surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana Sicily has a rich and unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, music, literature,...

, grouped by type and sorted by location.

Airports

Airport names shown in bold have scheduled passenger service on commercial airlines.

Location	ICAO ICAO airport code The ICAO airport code or location indicator is a four-character alphanumeric code designating each airport around the world. These codes are defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization, and published in ICAO Document 7910: Location Indicators.The ICAO codes are used by air traffic...	IATA IATA airport code An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier, IATA station code or simply a location identifier, is a three-letter code designating many airports around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association...	Airport name	Total Passengers 2010
International airports
Catania Catania Catania is an Italian city on the east coast of Sicily facing the Ionian Sea, between Messina and Syracuse. It is the capital of the homonymous province, and with 298,957 inhabitants it is the second-largest city in Sicily and the tenth in Italy.Catania is known to have a seismic history and...	LICC	CTA	Catania Airport	6.321.753
Palermo Palermo Palermo is a city in Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old...	LICJ	PMO	Palermo-Punta Raisi Airport	4.367.342
Trapani Trapani Trapani is a city and comune on the west coast of Sicily in Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Trapani. Founded by Elymians, the city is still an important fishing port and the main gateway to the nearby Egadi Islands.-History:...	LICT	TPS	Trapani-Birgi Airport	1.682.991
Comiso Comiso Comiso is an Italian municipality in the Province of Ragusa in Sicily.-Geography:Comiso consists of three boroughs: Comiso, Pedalino, and Quaglio. It lies some 22 km west of Ragusa in the South of Sicily...	LICB	CIY	Comiso Airport Comiso Airport Comiso Airport , also known as Vincenzo Magliocco Airport is located in the Sicilian province of Ragusa, 5 km from Comiso and 15 km from Ragusa. It changed from military to civil use during 2005-2008...  (currently closed)	--
National airports
Lampedusa Lampedusa Lampedusa is the largest island of the Italian Pelagie Islands in the Mediterranean Sea. The comune of Lampedusa e Linosa is part of the Sicilian province of Agrigento which also includes the smaller islands of Linosa and Lampione. It is the southernmost part of Italy. Tunisia, which is about ...	LICD	LMP	Lampedusa Airport Lampedusa Airport Lampedusa Airport is an airport in Lampedusa, Province of Agrigento, Sicily, Italy . It is located a few hundred meters away from the city centre, and reaches its traffic peaks in the summer period, as several airlines run flights to the island for tourism-related reasons.-Airlines and...	187.952
Pantelleria Pantelleria Pantelleria , the ancient Cossyra, is an Italian island in the Strait of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea, southwest of Sicily and just east of the Tunisian coast. Administratively Pantelleria is a comune belonging to the Sicilian province of Trapani...	LICG	PNL	Pantelleria Airport Pantelleria Airport Pantelleria Airport is an airport in Pantelleria, Italy. It is distant 5 km from the town centre and runs both regular and charter flights from and to Sicily and mainland Italy.-Airlines and destinations:-External links:**...	136.860
Palermo Palermo Palermo is a city in Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old...	LICP	--	Palermo-Boccadifalco Airport Palermo-Boccadifalco Airport Palermo-Boccadifalco Airport , also known as Emanuele Notarbartolo Airport, is the elder of two facilities which serve the Sicilian capital Palermo, in Italy. Located on the outskirts of the city, just before Monte Cuccio, it is one of the oldest airports in the country. Today it houses a Botanical...	n.a.
Military airports
Sigonella	LICZ	NSY	Naval Air Station Sigonella Naval Air Station Sigonella Naval Air Station Sigonella , "The Hub of the Med", is a U.S. Navy installation at NATO Base Sigonella and an Italian Air Force base in Sicily, Italy. Although a tenant of the Italian Air Force, NAS Sigonella acts as landlord to more than 40 other U.S. commands and activities. It is located west...	--

Former Airports

All the following airports were opened before IATA and ICAO codes were used but each Italian airport had an ID number used by the Italian Regia Aeronautica

Regia Aeronautica

The Italian Royal Air Force was the name of the air force of the Kingdom of Italy. It was established as a service independent of the Royal Italian Army from 1923 until 1946...

 to codify the airfield.

Former airports
Trapani Trapani Trapani is a city and comune on the west coast of Sicily in Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Trapani. Founded by Elymians, the city is still an important fishing port and the main gateway to the nearby Egadi Islands.-History:...	514	Trapani-Milo Airport Trapani-Milo Airport Trapani-Milo Airport was the first airport to serve the Sicilian city of Trapani, in Italy. It is located on the outskirts of the city. In July 2001 the airbase was intitoled to the Italian aerospace engineer Luigi Broglio.-History:...	closed in 1949, today used by the ISA Italian Space Agency The Italian Space Agency is a government agency established in 1988 to fund, regulate and coordinate space exploration activities in Italy...  as launch site for stratospheric balloon.
Trapani Trapani Trapani is a city and comune on the west coast of Sicily in Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Trapani. Founded by Elymians, the city is still an important fishing port and the main gateway to the nearby Egadi Islands.-History:...	516	Trapani-Chinisia Airport	closed in 1970
Gela Gela Gela is a town and comune in the province of Caltanissetta in the south of Sicily, Italy. The city is at about 84 kilometers distance from the city of Caltanissetta, on the Mediterranean Sea. The city has a larger population than the provincial capital, and ranks second in land area.Gela is an...	502	Ponte Olivo Airfield Ponte Olivo Airfield Ponte Olivo Airfield is an abandoned pre-World War II airport and later wartime military airfield in Sicily, 3 km north of Gela. Its last known use was by the United States Army Air Force Twelfth Air Force in 1944 during the Italian Campaign.-History:...	closed in 1962
Castelvetrano Castelvetrano Castelvetrano is a town and comune in the province of Trapani, Sicily, Italy. The archeological site of Selinunte is located within the territory of the comune. It was the birthplace of Giovanni Gentile, the key philosopher of the Fascist movement in Italy.The town is predominantly a farming town,...	511	Castelvetrano Airfield Castelvetrano Airfield Ombrene Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in Sicily, which is located approximately 1 km southwest of Castelvetrano...	closed in 1960s
Sciacca Sciacca Sciacca , also Schiacca, is a town and comune in the province of Agrigento on the southwestern coast of Sicily...	501	Sciacca Airfield	abandoned after WWII
Acate Acate Acate is a small town and comune in the south of Sicily, Italy, part of the province of Ragusa. It is located in the Dirillo River valley, 34 kilometers from Ragusa....	504	Biscari-Santo Pietro Airfield	abandoned after WWII
Gerbini	505	Gerbini Airfield Gerbini Airfield Gerbini Airfield is a series of abandoned World War II military airfields in Sicily, located 23 KM West of Catania, near the intersection of the A19 and SP24 highways. The airfields consisted of a series of flat agricultural fields, used for runways and parking areas...	abandoned after WWII
Milazzo Milazzo Milazzo is a town and comune in the province of Messina, Sicily, Italy.The city is situated between two bays, one of Milazzo and the east to the west of Patti, in a strategic place in the north-eastern Sicily.Located 43 km from the provincial capital, is part of the metropolitan area of the Strait...	506	Milazzo Airfield Milazzo Airfield Milazzo Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield on Sicily, located in the southern suburbs of Milazzo, on the northern tip of the island....	abandoned after WWII
Marsala Marsala Marsala is a seaport city located in the Province of Trapani on the island of Sicily in Italy. The low coast on which it is situated is the westernmost point of the island...	513	Marsala-Carcitella Airfield	abandoned after WWII
Pachino Pachino Pachino is a town and comune in the Province of Syracuse, Sicily . The name derives from the Phoenician word pachum which means guardia in Italian ; an alternative origin is the Greek word paxum translating into fertile...	517	Pachino Airfield	abandoned after WWII
Licata Licata Licata is a city and comune located on the south coast of Sicily, at the mouth of the Salso River , about midway between Agrigento and Gela...	----	Licata Airfield Licata Airfield Licata Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in Italy, located in the vicinity of Licata, Sicily. It was a temporary fighter airfield constructed in the immediate aftermath of Operation Husky by Army Engineers using Pierced Steel Planking for its runway, parking and dispersal...	abandoned after WWII
Agrigento Agrigento Agrigento , is a city on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy, and capital of the province of Agrigento. It is renowned as the site of the ancient Greek city of Akragas , one of the leading cities of Magna Graecia during the golden...	----	Agrigento Airfield Agrigento Airfield Agrigento Airfield was a military airfield in Sicily, just to the northwest of Agrigento; approximately 5 km northeast of Porto Empedocle....	abandoned after WWII
Cassibile	----	Cassibile Airfield Cassibile Airfield Cassibile Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in Italy, which is located in the vicinity of Syracuse on Sicily. Its precise location is unknown....	abandoned after WWII

Other old airport codes were 507 for Palermo-Boccadifalco, 503 for Catania, 508 for Comiso and 515 for Pantelleria.

Former Seaplane Base

From the sicilian waterdromes of Siracusa and Marsala

Marsala

Marsala is a seaport city located in the Province of Trapani on the island of Sicily in Italy. The low coast on which it is situated is the westernmost point of the island...

 during the 1920s and 30s were operated flights to the cities of Rome

Rome

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 and Naples

Naples

Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...

 in Italy

Italy

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 mainland and to the cities of Tripoli

Tripoli

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 and Benghazi

Benghazi

Benghazi is the second largest city in Libya, the main city of the Cyrenaica region , and the former provisional capital of the National Transitional Council. The wider metropolitan area is also a district of Libya...

 in Libya

Libya

Libya is an African country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....

 by seaplane

Seaplane

A seaplane is a fixed-wing aircraft capable of taking off and landing on water. Seaplanes that can also take off and land on airfields are a subclass called amphibian aircraft...

s and amphibious aircraft

Amphibious aircraft

An amphibious aircraft or amphibian is an aircraft that can take off and land on either land or water. Fixed-wing amphibious aircraft are seaplanes that are equipped with retractable wheels, at the expense of extra weight and complexity, plus diminished range and fuel economy compared to planes...

s. Also from Palermo's harbour there was a postal-service to Naples and a passenger-service on the route Rome-Palermo-Tunis. Enna-Nicoletti Waterdrome, located on a lake in central Sicily, was opened in 2007 and closed the following year.

Former waterdromes
Palermo Palermo Palermo is a city in Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old...	----	----	Palermo Seaplane Base	open
Siracusa	LICK	510	Siracusa-De Filippis Seaplane Base	closed in 2008.
Marsala Marsala Marsala is a seaport city located in the Province of Trapani on the island of Sicily in Italy. The low coast on which it is situated is the westernmost point of the island...	----	512	Marsala-Stagnone Seaplane Base	closed in 1990s.
Augusta	----	509	Augusta-Spagnolo Seaplane Base	closed in 1991.
Enna Enna Enna is a city and comune located roughly at the center of Sicily, southern Italy, in the province of Enna, towering above the surrounding countryside...	----	----	Enna-Nicoletti Seaplane Base	closed.