The bma-LICT-Trapani-v1 folder contains a ‘manual’ version of Trapani-Birgi International Airport – Vincenzo Florio (LICT / TPS) for use in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.
Trapani-Birgi Airport (IATA: TPS, ICAO: LICT) is an Italian military airport, open to civil traffic.
The civil airport is named after Vincenzo Florio, the military to the lieutenant pilot, M.O.V.M., Livio Bassi. There is also a Forward Operating Base (NATO Forward Operating Base) in the military zone.
The civil airport, located in a fraction of area separated from the military base, began operations in the sixties, when the new military airport were also transferred civil flights, operated by Alitalia, to Palermo, Pantelleria and Tunis, previously operated from Trapani-Chinisia airport. In 1964 connections with Naples and Rome-Fiumicino began, while in June of the same year ATI inaugurated its flights to Pantelleria and Palermo. Then the flight to Milan Linate was added.
On 4 May 2011, the Board of Directors of ENAC approved the decision to grant the total thirty-year management of Trapani Airport in favor of the management company Airgest S.p.A.
The airport is classified as “military open to civil air traffic”, so the flight assistance services (radio assistance, air traffic, meteorology) are provided by the personnel of the 37th Wing of the Italian Air Force to civil aircraft.
