“I join the words of the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto in thanking, on behalf of all the Air Force personnel, those who - at every level - have worked with commitment in recent years within the Military Representation Bodies, contributing with attention and through a continuous and fruitful dialogue with the Forza authorities [...]
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The emergency medical transport of a nine-year-old patient from the Garibaldi National and Highly Specialized Hospital of Catania to the Eugenio Medea Scientific Institute in Bosisio Parini (LC) ended in the early afternoon today. The child was transported with a Falcon 900 aircraft of the 31st Wing of the Air Force, [...]
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Emergency medical transport took place today from Palermo to Milan, with a Falcon 50 aircraft of the 31st Wing of the Air Force, in favor of a baby just over two weeks old in need of urgent specialist care. The emergency flight, requested by the Prefecture of Palermo, was immediately arranged and coordinated by the Situation Room [...]
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An aircraft of the 31st Wing of the Air Force allowed the urgent transport of a one-day-old newborn baby, in imminent danger of life, to the Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital The emergency medical transport of a newborn baby of only one day of life from Cagliari-Elmas airport to Rome-Ciampino, carried out with [...]
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The medical transport was carried out with a transport aircraft a Falcon 50 of the 31st Wing of the Italian Air Force The emergency medical transport carried out by a Falcon 50 of the 31st Wing of the Italian Air Force that flew from the airport has just ended of Bari Palese to that of Milan Linate with a 42-year-old woman on board [...]
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The 82nd CSAR Center engaged in a rescue on the Sea Eye 4 ship Last night (18 March 2022) a helicopter from the 82nd CSAR Center (Combat Search And Rescue) in Trapani, intervened to rescue a 74-year-old man hit by a hypertensive crisis, embarked on the German ship Sea Eye 4. The crew, in readiness for alarm [...]
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Protected by the thermal cradle inside an ambulance, the little patient was transferred with a C130J of the 46th Air Brigade of the Italian Air Force A 130 ^ C-46J transport aircraft recently landed at Ciampino airport Air Force Brigade that transported an ambulance from Bari Palese airport carrying a newborn in imminent danger [...]
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The very small patient, embarked on a Falcon 50 of the 31st Wing, arrived in the early afternoon at Ciampino airport for the subsequent transfer to the Bambino Gesù Hospital in Rome The mission of a Falcon 50 of the 31st Wing has just ended. of the Italian Air Force with a 10-day-old baby on board for [...]
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HH-139B helicopter delivered in the presence of the Minister of Defense Guerini and the Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Rosso visiting the Vergiate plant The acceptance ceremony took place today at the Leonardo plant in Vergiate (VA) of a new HH-139B, helicopter destined for the Italian Air Force in the presence of the Minister of Defense [...]
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Balance sheet of a difficult year in which the 44.000 men and women of the Italian Air Force have continued to work incessantly at the service of citizens and the country. 2020 is a busy year, difficult to describe, to summarize and with important emotional challenges. A year in which the Air Force has never stopped, merging the newspaper [...]
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The little girl, embarked in a thermal cradle, was transported from Alghero to Genoa with a Falcon 50 jet of the 31 ° Stormo A 5 month old girl, hospitalized at the SS. Annunziata di Sassari, was urgently transported in the early afternoon of today from Alghero to Genoa, aboard an aircraft [...]
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The baby was transported in a thermal cradle from Sardinia with a Falcon 900 aircraft of the 31st Wing The emergency transport of a Falcon 900 of the 31st Wing of the Italian Air Force in favor of a newborn in imminent danger was concluded a few minutes ago of life. Leaving from Alghero, the flight allowed for hospitalization [...]
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Today two special flights: one from Milan to Rome and one from China with a load of over 360 thousand masks The air rescue machine does not stop to face the Covid-19 emergency. Air Force aircraft and crews, already at the forefront from the early stages for the transport of patients in bio-containment, are engaged [...]
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"I thank all of you for how and for what you are doing in this delicate moment for the Nation" - this is how the Head of State addressed the Men and Women of the Armed Forces of the operations room of the Summit Joint Operations Command (COI) Defense Major, General Enzo Vecciarelli, welcomed this morning by [...]
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The child was transferred with a Falcon 900 of the 31st Wing of Ciampino. The aircraft rescue machine does not stop and not only for the Covid 19 emergency. In fact, today morning, a medical transport was carried out with a Falcon 900 aircraft of the 31st Wing of Ciampino in favor of a newborn in need of [...]
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Medical equipment from Germany landed this morning The two aircraft of the Italian Air Force, which left at first light from Cologne, Germany, landed at the Pratica di Mare Military Airport with a load of about seven tons of equipment for respiratory assistance and other support systems and medical supplies. A KC-767 of the 14th Wing [...]
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"When the going gets tough, the tough get to play." (by Andrea Pinto) The serious emergency situation in Italy has been managed up to now by the Government which is trying to do its best but which exclusively relies on the Civil Protection Department which is the institutional body of the Prime Minister [...]
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A few minutes from each other, two aircraft took off for the urgent transport of two children in imminent danger of life. Double life-saving intervention in the early afternoon yesterday for the Air Force aircraft. The first request came from the Prefecture of Sassari which alerted the Summit Situation Room of [...]
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Two urgent medical transports were carried out during the night in favor of a five-year-old girl and a 3-day-old baby girl A C-130J aircraft of the 46 ^ Air Brigade of Pisa and a Falcon 900 of the 31 ° Stormo di Ciampino took off in the middle of the night for urgent medical transport [...]
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