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hero-in\">\n<div class=\"crumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/\">Order of Battle<\/a> &middot; <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/italian-air-force\/\">Italian Air Force<\/a> &middot; Air base<\/div>\n<h1>Amendola Air Base<\/h1>\n<div class=\"native\">Aeroporto militare &quot;Luigi Rovelli&quot;, Amendola<\/div>\n<p class=\"sub\">Active (F-35A and F-35B, MQ-9A Reaper)<\/p>\n<div class=\"statstrip\">\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>LIBA<\/b><span>ICAO<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>2,660 m<\/b><span>Runway<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>Active<\/b><span>Status<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"photocred\">Photo: Mnc photography \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)<\/div>\n<div class=\"accent\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"chips\"><span class=\"chip\"><b>Operator<\/b>Italian Air Force<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Region<\/b>Puglia<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Elevation<\/b>56 m<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Coordinates<\/b>41.5384 N, 15.7172 E<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"mfshare\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-btn\"><svg viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><circle cx=\"18\" cy=\"5\" r=\"3\"\/><circle cx=\"6\" cy=\"12\" r=\"3\"\/><circle cx=\"18\" cy=\"19\" r=\"3\"\/><path d=\"M8.6 10.6l6.8-4M8.6 13.4l6.8 4\"\/><\/svg>Share<\/button><span class=\"mfsh-net\"><\/span><span class=\"mfsh-said\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section id=\"story\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">The story<\/div>\n<h2>Amendola Air Base: what it was built for and what flies there now<\/h2>\n<div class=\"cols\">\n<div>\n<p>Amendola stands on the Tavoliere plain about fifteen kilometres north-east of Foggia, on 1,050 hectares that make it the largest military airfield in Italy and, after Ramstein, the second largest in Europe. It is far enough from any town that the air force built a village of its own, the Villaggio Azzurro, for the people who work there. The field carries the name of Luigi Rovelli, a torpedo-bomber pilot from Rodi Garganico who was killed in action off Alexandria on 28 December 1941 and given the Gold Medal for Military Valour by royal decree of 24 July 1942.<\/p>\n<p>In the autumn of 1943 Amendola became one of the airfields of the Foggia complex, the flat, dry plain from which the Allies bombed southern and central Europe. The P-47s of the 57th Fighter Group arrived on 27 October 1943, the B-25s of the 321st Bombardment Group on 20 November, and on 16 January 1944 the B-17s of the 97th Bombardment Group &mdash; the group that had flown the Eighth Air Force&rsquo;s first heavy bomber mission from England, against the marshalling yards at Rouen, on 17 August 1942. Wellingtons of the RAF&rsquo;s 330 Wing and Liberators of 240 Wing followed, and the Balkan Air Force, which included aircraft of the Italian co-belligerent air force, flew supply and support missions to Yugoslav and Greek partisans from the same strip.<\/p>\n<p>After the war Amendola became a place where Italian military aviation did things for the first time. The first three de Havilland Vampires, the first jets the Aeronautica Militare ever owned, landed here on 15 March 1950, and the advanced jet flying school that grew around them became the 60&#170; Brigata Aerea in 1986. The school closed on 1 July 1993, when the 32&#176; Stormo arrived from Brindisi and turned Amendola from a training field into a front-line base, first on the AMX and then on the F-35.<\/p>\n<p>It now does two very different jobs at once. Amendola was the first base in Europe to operate the F-35A and is the only one that flies both the A and the short take-off B, the 13&#176; Gruppo on one and the 101&#176; Gruppo, reactivated on 1 July 2025, on the other. It is also the home of Italian armed remotely piloted aircraft: the 28&#176; Gruppo flew the Predator from 2005 and the MQ-9A Reaper since, and has kept a detachment in Kuwait since 2014.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"sat\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Satellite<\/div>\n<h2>Amendola from above<\/h2>\n<div class=\"satfig\" id=\"satfig\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"Enlarge the satellite view\">\n<div class=\"satimg\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Amendola Air Base seen from above\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"satzoom\">Click to enlarge<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"satcap\"><b>One runway, 2,660 m of asphalt.<\/b><span>Imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics and the GIS user community<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"satlb\" id=\"satlb\"><span class=\"satlbx\">Close<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"satbig\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Amendola Air Base seen from above, enlarged\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<style>#mfam .satimg{background-image:url(\"https:\/\/server.arcgisonline.com\/ArcGIS\/rest\/services\/World_Imagery\/MapServer\/export?bbox=15.67766,41.52466,15.75674,41.55214\\26 bboxSR=4326\\26 imageSR=3857\\26 size=1600,743\\26 format=jpg\\26 f=image\")!important}#mfam .satbig{background-image:url(\"https:\/\/server.arcgisonline.com\/ArcGIS\/rest\/services\/World_Imagery\/MapServer\/export?bbox=15.68003,41.51985,15.75437,41.55695\\26 bboxSR=4326\\26 imageSR=3857\\26 size=2048,1365\\26 format=jpg\\26 f=image\")!important}@media(max-width:820px){#mfam .satimg{background-image:url(\"https:\/\/server.arcgisonline.com\/ArcGIS\/rest\/services\/World_Imagery\/MapServer\/export?bbox=15.69884,41.52466,15.73556,41.55214\\26 bboxSR=4326\\26 imageSR=3857\\26 size=760,760\\26 format=jpg\\26 f=image\")!important}}<\/style>\n<div id=\"sat-data\" data-js=\"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\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(){var el=document.getElementById(\"sat-data\");var js=decodeURIComponent(escape(atob(el.getAttribute(\"data-js\"))));var sc=document.createElement(\"script\");sc.text=js;document.body.appendChild(sc);})();<\/script><section class=\"pqband\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"pqrow\">\n<figure class=\"pq\">\n<blockquote><p>Today is an important day for the Italian Air Force. With the Initial Operational Capability we are the first in Europe to achieve a real operational capability with a 5th generation aircraft.<\/blockquote><figcaption><b>Alberto Rosso<\/b><span>Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff of the Italian Air Force, at Amendola on 30 November 2018<\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/2018\/11\/30\/first-in-europe-the-italian-air-force-declares-ioc-f35\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Aviationist, 30 November 2018<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"pq\">\n<blockquote><p>It is clearly evident that the Italian F-35A detachment is 100 percent ready to offer NATO a scramble capability ensuring sovereignty of our airspace in the High North.<\/blockquote><figcaption><b>Massimo Cervone<\/b><span>Lieutenant Colonel, NATO Combined Air Operations Centre Uedem, on the certification of the Amendola F-35A detachment in Iceland, 6 May 2022<\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/ac.nato.int\/archive\/2022\/ITA_F-35_FOC.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NATO Allied Air Command<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"glance\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">At a glance<\/div>\n<h2>Amendola Air Base in numbers<\/h2>\n<div class=\"specgrid three\">\n<div class=\"spectable\">\n<h4>Location &amp; codes<\/h4>\n<dl>\n<dt>ICAO<\/dt>\n<dd>LIBA<\/dd>\n<dt>Country<\/dt>\n<dd>Italy<\/dd>\n<dt>Region<\/dt>\n<dd>Puglia<\/dd>\n<dt>Coordinates<\/dt>\n<dd>41.5384 N, 15.7172 E<\/dd>\n<dt>Elevation<\/dt>\n<dd>56 m <span class=\"imp\">(184 ft)<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Usage<\/dt>\n<dd>Military<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spectable\">\n<h4>Runways &amp; facilities<\/h4>\n<dl>\n<dt>Runways<\/dt>\n<dd>1<\/dd>\n<dt>Designator<\/dt>\n<dd>11\/29<\/dd>\n<dt>Length<\/dt>\n<dd>2,660 m <span class=\"imp\">(8,727 ft)<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Surface<\/dt>\n<dd>Asphalt<\/dd>\n<dt>Quick Reaction Alert<\/dt>\n<dd>F-35A on NATO quick reaction alert since January 2022<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spectable\">\n<h4>Command &amp; status<\/h4>\n<dl>\n<dt>Status<\/dt>\n<dd>Active<span class=\"gnote\">F-35A and F-35B, MQ-9A Reaper<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Operator<\/dt>\n<dd>Italian Air Force<\/dd>\n<dt>Command<\/dt>\n<dd>32&#176; Stormo &quot;Armando Boetto&quot;<\/dd>\n<dt>Resident units<\/dt>\n<dd>4 current, 2 former<\/dd>\n<dt>Based types<\/dt>\n<dd>5<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"units\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Resident units<\/div>\n<h2>Who flies from Amendola Air Base<\/h2>\n<div class=\"oob\">\n<div><span>Current<\/span><em>4 units<\/em><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>13&#176; Gruppo Caccia<small>Fighter squadron &middot; regular &middot; from 1993<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-35-lightning-ii\/\">Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>101&#176; Gruppo Caccia<small>Fighter squadron &middot; regular<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-35-lightning-ii\/\">Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>28&#176; Gruppo APR<small>Remotely piloted aircraft squadron &middot; regular<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mq-9-reaper\/\">General Atomics MQ-9A Reaper<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>632&#170; Squadriglia Collegamenti<small>Liaison flight &middot; regular<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Aermacchi T-339A, Aermacchi MB-339CD II<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<div><span>Former<\/span><em>2 units<\/em><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt class=\"was\">Centro di Eccellenza APR<small>&mdash; &middot; Moved to Frosinone in June 2026, where it became the core of the new 66th Wing, constituted there on 18 June 2026.<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"was\"><\/dd>\n<dt class=\"was\">60&#170; Brigata Aerea<small>1986&ndash;1993 &middot; The advanced jet school at Amendola, descended from the 1950 jet conversion nucleus, disbanded on 1 July 1993 when the 32nd Wing arrived from Brindisi and absorbed its two flying squadrons.<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"was\">Fiat G.91T<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Aircraft types based here<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-35-lightning-ii\/\">Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-35-lightning-ii\/\">Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mq-9-reaper\/\">General Atomics MQ-9A Reaper<\/a>, Aermacchi T-339A, Aermacchi MB-339CD II, Fiat G.91T<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"knownfor\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Claim to fame<\/div>\n<h2>What Amendola is known for<\/h2>\n<div class=\"kfgrid\">\n<div class=\"kf\">\n<div class=\"kfn\">01<\/div>\n<h3>Europe&rsquo;s first F-35 base<\/h3>\n<p>The first F-35s to be based anywhere in Europe landed here, and the Italian Air Force became the first European air arm to call the aircraft operational.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"kff\">Two F-35As arrived on 12 December 2016; initial operational capability was declared on 30 November 2018 with ten aircraft delivered.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"kf\">\n<div class=\"kfn\">02<\/div>\n<h3>Both F-35 variants<\/h3>\n<p>Amendola is the only base in the world outside the United States that flies the conventional F-35A and the short take-off and vertical landing F-35B from the same ramp.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"kff\">The air force&rsquo;s first F-35B, MM7453 coded 32-14, arrived on 22 February 2020; the 101&#176; Gruppo was reactivated on the type on 1 July 2025.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"kf\">\n<div class=\"kfn\">03<\/div>\n<h3>The Italian drone squadron<\/h3>\n<p>Italy&rsquo;s remotely piloted aircraft live here. The 28&#176; Gruppo has flown surveillance and strike missions over Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkans and Libya for two decades.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"kff\">Six Predators bought in 2002 entered service in January 2005 and the last were withdrawn on 19 December 2022, after almost eighteen years.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"kf\">\n<div class=\"kfn\">04<\/div>\n<h3>The biggest airfield in Italy<\/h3>\n<p>There is simply a great deal of it. The base is large enough to have its own residential village and to host multinational exercises without borrowing ramp space.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"kff\">1,050 hectares, the largest military airfield in Italy and the second largest in Europe after Ramstein.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"kf\">\n<div class=\"kfn\">05<\/div>\n<h3>A Fifteenth Air Force bomber field<\/h3>\n<p>For two years Amendola was an American heavy bomber base, one of the fields of the Foggia complex from which the Fifteenth Air Force attacked oil, aircraft factories and railways across occupied Europe.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"kff\">The 97th Bombardment Group flew from here from 16 January 1944 and earned Distinguished Unit Citations for Steyr on 24 February 1944 and Ploiesti on 18 August 1944.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"kf\">\n<div class=\"kfn\">06<\/div>\n<h3>Where Italy&rsquo;s jet age began<\/h3>\n<p>The air force&rsquo;s first jet aircraft were delivered here, and the advanced jet flying school that followed trained Italian fighter pilots for four decades.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"kff\">Three de Havilland Vampires arrived on 15 March 1950; the school became the 60&#170; Brigata Aerea in 1986 and closed on 1 July 1993.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"deep\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Go deeper<\/div>\n<h2>The long version<\/h2>\n<div class=\"deep\">\n<details class=\"ddet\">\n<summary><span class=\"dn\">01<\/span><span>The bomber plain<\/span><span class=\"dx\">Read<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"dbody\">\n<p>Foggia was chosen because of the weather and the ground. The Tavoliere is flat, dry and large, and in the autumn of 1943 the Allies turned it into a complex of airfields from which heavy bombers could reach targets that were out of range from England. Amendola was one of them, and it filled quickly: the P-47 Thunderbolts of the 57th Fighter Group from 27 October 1943, the B-25 Mitchells of the 321st Bombardment Group from 20 November, and from 16 January 1944 the B-17s of the 97th Bombardment Group, which stayed until October 1945.<\/p>\n<p>The 97th had a particular pedigree. It had opened the American strategic bombing campaign in Europe on 17 August 1942, when its B-17s hit the marshalling yards at Rouen on the first heavy bomber mission flown by the Army Air Forces from England. From Amendola it flew the long missions the Fifteenth Air Force existed for, and it took Distinguished Unit Citations for Steyr on 24 February 1944 and for Ploiesti on 18 August 1944. The 2nd Bombardment Group, which also used Amendola, had flown 412 missions by 1 May 1945.<\/p>\n<p>The British were here too. Wellington Xs of 330 Wing flew from Amendola between February and July 1944, and Liberators of 240 Wing from 4 July 1944 to 25 August 1945. The field also became a base of the Balkan Air Force, the mixed Allied formation that supplied and supported Yugoslav and Greek partisans, and which included aircraft and crews of the Italian co-belligerent air force flying for the side they had been bombing eighteen months earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The scale of the thing is easy to underestimate now. In the final offensive of 9 to 18 April 1945, the Fifteenth Air Force put 1,233 bombers into the air from the Foggia fields in support of the American Fifth and British Eighth Armies pushing into northern Italy. Amendola&rsquo;s runway and dispersals were built for that traffic, which is a large part of why the airfield is as big as it is today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"ddet\">\n<summary><span class=\"dn\">02<\/span><span>First jets, and the school that followed<\/span><span class=\"dx\">Read<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"dbody\">\n<p>On 15 March 1950 three de Havilland Vampires landed at Amendola. They were the first jet aircraft the Aeronautica Militare had ever owned, and the choice of airfield was practical rather than ceremonial: Amendola had length, space and good weather, and nobody nearby to complain about the noise. North American F-86 Sabres followed, and the conversion nucleus turned into the air force&rsquo;s advanced jet flying school.<\/p>\n<p>For the next forty years Amendola was where Italian fighter pilots learned to fly fast. The school flew the Fiat G.91T among other types, and in 1986 it was reorganised as the 60&#170; Brigata Aerea. It is a period that tends to be skipped over because training bases do not generate headlines, but a generation of Starfighter and Tornado crews passed through this runway before going anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>The school&rsquo;s end came on 1 July 1993. The 32&#176; Stormo, reconstituted at Brindisi-Casale in September 1967 and flying the Fiat G.91R and then the G.91Y, moved to Amendola with the 13&#176; Gruppo, absorbed the brigade&rsquo;s two flying squadrons and disbanded it. Amendola stopped being a school and became an operational base, which is what it has been ever since.<\/p>\n<p>The re-equipment followed at once. The G.91Y was retired in 1995 and the wing converted to the AMX, the small Italian-Brazilian attack aircraft; the 101&#176; Gruppo joined as the operational conversion unit on 31 July 1995. Over the type&rsquo;s whole Italian career the AMX fleet flew about 240,000 hours, of which some 18,500 were operational, before the last four aircraft were retired from Istrana in April 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"ddet\">\n<summary><span class=\"dn\">03<\/span><span>Operazione Ghibli: the AMX goes to war<\/span><span class=\"dx\">Read<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"dbody\">\n<p>The AMX had been designed as a battlefield attack aircraft for a European war that never came, and its first shooting war was Kosovo. During NATO&rsquo;s Operation Allied Force in 1999 the Italian contribution flown under the national name Ghibli was based at Amendola, with nineteen AMX on the ramp and about ten held ready at any time.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft came from the 13&#176;, 14&#176;, 103&#176; and 132&#176; Gruppi, with pilots drawn from the 101&#176; Gruppo conversion unit at Amendola. The 13&#176; Gruppo, commanded during the campaign by Lieutenant Colonel Gustavo Cicconardi, did most of the flying. Missions were mostly daylight, about two sorties a day per crew, flying close air support and offensive strike with Opher infrared-guided bombs, free-fall Mk 82s and, late in the campaign, GBU-16 laser-guided bombs.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian AMX flew 252 sorties in the Kosovo campaign. What the aircraft was good at was the unglamorous part: it was accurate, it was cheap to fly, and it could stay over a target area for a useful time. An Italian pilot later reported an American telling him that &quot;we need only AMX and A-10 to win this war&quot; &mdash; a compliment about endurance and payload rather than performance.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan was the type&rsquo;s longest war. Between 2009 and 2014 Italian AMX flew close to 10,000 hours on about 3,000 missions there, mostly reconnaissance and armed overwatch, and the type also served over Libya in 2011 and in the Kuwait-based anti-Daesh effort in 2016. The fleet ended its career at Istrana, but Amendola is where it first went to war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"ddet\">\n<summary><span class=\"dn\">04<\/span><span>Italy&rsquo;s drone squadron<\/span><span class=\"dx\">Read<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"dbody\">\n<p>Italy bought six General Atomics Predators in 2002. They were delivered from 2004, entered service in January 2005, and were flown from Amendola by a remotely piloted aircraft group formed on 1 March 2002, which on 1 February 2005 took the number and traditions of the 28&#176; Gruppo. At that point almost nobody in Europe outside the United Kingdom had an armed-capable medium-altitude endurance aircraft in service.<\/p>\n<p>The squadron went operational almost immediately. Italian Predators flew over Iraq during Operation Antica Babilonia from 2005, over Afghanistan from 2007 &mdash; where they had logged more than 6,000 flight hours by the end of that year &mdash; over Kosovo, and over Libya during Operation Unified Protector in 2011. The larger MQ-9 Reaper, called Predator B in Italian service, arrived from 2010, and a detachment has been maintained at Ali Al Salem in Kuwait since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The politics were slower than the flying. Italian Reapers operated unarmed for years while the question of arming them went through Rome and Washington; the two additional MQ-1C ER airframes delivered on 22 December 2015 were bought partly to replace an aircraft lost in 2010. The original Predator fleet was finally withdrawn on 19 December 2022, leaving the Reaper as the squadron&rsquo;s aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Amendola also grew the institutional side of the business. The Centro di Eccellenza APR, the air force&rsquo;s remotely piloted aircraft centre of excellence, sat here until it moved to Frosinone on 15 June 2026 to become the core of the new 66&#176; Stormo. What remains at Amendola is the operational squadron, which is the part that actually flies over other people&rsquo;s countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"ddet\">\n<summary><span class=\"dn\">05<\/span><span>The first F-35 base in Europe<\/span><span class=\"dx\">Read<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"dbody\">\n<p>On 12 December 2016 two F-35As landed at Amendola, assembled at Cameri and flown to the 13&#176; Gruppo. No other European base had the aircraft. Italy had committed early and heavily to the programme, had built the only assembly line outside the United States, and had decided that the first squadron would go to the base with the longest experience of introducing new types.<\/p>\n<p>The milestones came quickly. From 1 March 2018 the F-35As began contributing to national air defence surveillance. On 30 November 2018, during the media day of the Tactical Leadership Programme course 18-4 at Amendola, the air force declared initial operational capability for the 13&#176; Gruppo. Ten F-35As had been delivered; eight were with the squadron at Block 3F standard and two were at Luke Air Force Base for training. It made Italy the first air arm in Europe to declare a fifth-generation aircraft operational.<\/p>\n<p>Then came the deployments. In October 2019 six Amendola F-35As spent three weeks at Keflavik on NATO&rsquo;s Icelandic air policing mission, the first time any ally had used the F-35 for NATO air policing. Italy went back in 2020 and again in 2022, when the detachment was certified for 24-hour scramble duty at the end of April. Amendola also hosts Falcon Strike, the multinational fifth-generation exercise; in June 2021 Israeli F-35I Adirs flew from here alongside Italian, American and British aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The F-35B arrived into an argument. Italy ordered 90 aircraft, 60 As and 30 Bs, and split the Bs fifteen and fifteen between the air force and the navy &mdash; a division the navy disliked, its former chief of staff Admiral Luigi Binelli Mantelli publicly arguing in La Stampa that the short take-off variant was expensive and belonged at sea. The air force&rsquo;s case was runways: for every strip usable by a conventional fighter there are perhaps ten shorter ones a STOVL aircraft could use. Its first F-35B reached Amendola on 22 February 2020, and on 1 July 2025 the 101&#176; Gruppo was reactivated on the type.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"timeline\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Timeline<\/div>\n<h2>Amendola, year by year<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tl\">\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1943<\/div>\n<p>27 October: P-47 Thunderbolts of the American 57th Fighter Group arrive, the first Allied unit at Amendola.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1943<\/div>\n<p>20 November: the B-25 Mitchells of the 321st Bombardment Group move in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1944<\/div>\n<p>16 January: the B-17s of the 97th Bombardment Group arrive and stay until October 1945.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1944<\/div>\n<p>February to July: Wellingtons of the RAF&rsquo;s 330 Wing fly from Amendola; Liberators of 240 Wing follow from 4 July.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1945<\/div>\n<p>9&ndash;18 April: 1,233 Fifteenth Air Force bombers fly from the Foggia fields in the final offensive in Italy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1950<\/div>\n<p>15 March: three de Havilland Vampires land at Amendola, the first jets the Italian Air Force ever owned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1993<\/div>\n<p>1 July: the 32&#176; Stormo arrives from Brindisi with the 13&#176; Gruppo; the 60&#170; Brigata Aerea, the advanced jet school formed in 1986, is disbanded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1995<\/div>\n<p>31 July: the 101&#176; Gruppo joins as conversion unit; the G.91Y is retired and the wing converts to the AMX.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1999<\/div>\n<p>Operazione Ghibli: nineteen AMX based at Amendola fly 252 sorties in NATO&rsquo;s Kosovo campaign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">2002<\/div>\n<p>1 March: a remotely piloted aircraft group is formed at Amendola with the RQ-1 Predator.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">2005<\/div>\n<p>1 February: the unit takes the number of the 28&#176; Gruppo; Predators enter service in January and deploy to Iraq. The MQ-9 Reaper follows from 2010.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">2016<\/div>\n<p>12 December: two F-35As land at Amendola, the first F-35s based anywhere in Europe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">2018<\/div>\n<p>30 November: the 13&#176; Gruppo is declared initially operational on the F-35A, the first such declaration in Europe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">2019<\/div>\n<p>October: six Amendola F-35As fly NATO air policing from Keflavik, the first F-35 air policing deployment by any ally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">2020<\/div>\n<p>22 February: the air force&rsquo;s first F-35B, MM7453 coded 32-14, arrives at Amendola.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">2021<\/div>\n<p>7&ndash;15 June: Falcon Strike 21 brings Italian, American, British and Israeli F-35s to Amendola.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">2022<\/div>\n<p>19 December: the last Italian Predators are withdrawn from service, leaving the Reaper.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">2025<\/div>\n<p>1 July: the 101&#176; Gruppo is reactivated at Amendola on the F-35B.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"video\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">On film<\/div>\n<h2>Amendola on film<\/h2>\n<div class=\"vidwrap\">\n<div class=\"vidfr\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/hpJcGxUebas\" title=\"Scramble: two F-35As of the 32&#176; Stormo\" loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"vidcap\"><b>Scramble: two F-35As of the 32&#176; Stormo<\/b> Aeronautica Militare, via YouTube.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"incidents\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Incidents &amp; stories<\/div>\n<h2>What happened here<\/h2>\n<div class=\"inc\">\n<article>\n<div class=\"incd\">17 August 1942 and 16 January 1944<\/div>\n<h3>The group that opened the campaign<\/h3>\n<p>The 97th Bombardment Group flew the first heavy bomber mission the American air forces mounted from England, against the marshalling yards at Rouen on 17 August 1942. Eighteen months later it moved to Amendola, arriving on 16 January 1944, and flew from the Tavoliere until October 1945. From here it earned two Distinguished Unit Citations, for the attack on Steyr on 24 February 1944 and for Ploiesti on 18 August 1944. It is an odd piece of continuity: the unit that began the campaign in northern Europe finished it from a Puglian wheat field.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"incs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.armyaircorpsmuseum.org\/97th_Bombardment_Group.cfm\">Army Air Corps Library and Museum<\/a><\/article>\n<article>\n<div class=\"incd\">15 March 1950<\/div>\n<h3>Italy&rsquo;s first jets<\/h3>\n<p>Three de Havilland Vampires landed at Amendola on 15 March 1950. They were the first jet aircraft the Aeronautica Militare had ever operated, and the arrival made Amendola the place where the Italian jet age physically began. F-86 Sabres followed, and the conversion nucleus grew into the advanced jet flying school that trained Italian fighter pilots from the airfield for the next forty-three years.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"incs\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aeroporto_di_Amendola\">Wikipedia (it): Aeroporto di Amendola<\/a><\/article>\n<article>\n<div class=\"incd\">12 December 2016<\/div>\n<h3>The first F-35s in Europe<\/h3>\n<p>Two F-35As assembled at Cameri landed at Amendola on 12 December 2016 and were handed to the 13&#176; Gruppo. It was the first time the aircraft had been based anywhere in Europe, two years before the Royal Air Force stood up its first squadron at Marham. Amendola had been chosen partly for its size and partly because it had a long institutional habit of taking new types first.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"incs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.assoaeronauticapadova.it\/pd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/info-32-Stormo-Amendola-FG.pdf\">Associazione Arma Aeronautica, Sezione di Padova<\/a><\/article>\n<article>\n<div class=\"incd\">September to October 2019<\/div>\n<h3>The first F-35 air policing mission<\/h3>\n<p>Six F-35As of the 32&#176; Stormo deployed from Amendola to Keflavik in Iceland and spent three weeks in October 2019 flying NATO&rsquo;s Icelandic air policing mission. No ally had used the F-35 on a NATO air policing task before. Italy returned in 2020 and again in 2022, when the detachment was certified at the end of April for round-the-clock scramble duty.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"incs\" href=\"https:\/\/ac.nato.int\/archive\/2019\/italy-first-ally-to-deploy-f35-fighter-aircraft-to-nato-mission-in-iceland-\">NATO Allied Air Command<\/a><\/article>\n<article>\n<div class=\"incd\">23 October 2019<\/div>\n<h3>A Predator lands in a field<\/h3>\n<p>Shortly after take-off from Amendola on a training mission, an MQ-1C Predator A+ of the 32&#176; Stormo lost engine power. The crew put it down in an agricultural field in an uninhabited area next to the base at about half past one in the afternoon. Nobody was hurt and nothing on the ground was damaged. The air force said the pilot &quot;promptly interrupted the mission, conducting it safely&quot;, that the aircraft was in good condition, and that its flight safety commission would examine the cause.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"incs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foggiatoday.it\/cronaca\/aeronautica-atterraggio-fuori-campo-predator-amendola-foggia.html\">FoggiaToday<\/a><\/article>\n<article>\n<div class=\"incd\">20 November 2019<\/div>\n<h3>The Reaper lost over Libya<\/h3>\n<p>An Italian MQ-9A Reaper came down near Tarhuna, south-east of Tripoli, and photographs of the wreckage carrying Italian markings appeared on Libyan social media. Forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar claimed to have shot down what they took to be a Turkish aircraft. Italy confirmed the loss of an unarmed Reaper and said an investigation was under way to establish the cause; an Italian defence source pointed out that the wings in the photographs were intact. Nobody was aboard, and no crew were at risk.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"incs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2019\/11\/21\/italy-confirms-military-drone-crashed-in-libya\/\">Defense News<\/a><\/article>\n<article>\n<div class=\"incd\">7&ndash;15 June 2021<\/div>\n<h3>Israeli F-35s at Amendola<\/h3>\n<p>Falcon Strike 21 put Italian F-35As and F-35Bs, United States Air Force F-35As and F-16Cs, US Marine Corps and Royal Air Force F-35Bs and Israeli F-35I Adirs on the same ramp at Amendola for nine days. It was one of the first times Israeli F-35s had exercised in Europe, and the exercise has since become the standing multinational fifth-generation event on the Italian calendar.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"incs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usafe.af.mil\/News\/Press-Releases\/Article\/2647497\/us-f-35s-join-israeli-italian-and-uk-partners-for-falcon-strike-21-exercise\/\">US Air Forces in Europe<\/a><\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"map\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Location<\/div>\n<h2>Amendola Air Base and its neighbours<\/h2>\n<div class=\"mapframe\">\n<div id=\"oobmap\" class=\"oobmap\" style=\"height:440px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"legend\"><span><i class=\"dot\"><\/i> Active air base<\/span><span><i class=\"dot was\"><\/i> Closed or reserve<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tscroll\">\n<table class=\"oobt\" id=\"nearbytbl\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Nearby base<\/th>\n<th>ICAO<\/th>\n<th>Status<\/th>\n<th>Based types<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr data-base=\"gioia-del-colle\">\n<td>Gioia del Colle Air Base<\/td>\n<td>LIBV<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Eurofighter F-2000A Typhoon, Leonardo HH-139A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr data-base=\"lecce-galatina\">\n<td>Lecce-Galatina Air Base<\/td>\n<td>LIBN<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Aermacchi FT-339C, Leonardo T-345A, Aermacchi T-339A, Leonardo T-346A Master<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr data-base=\"brindisi\">\n<td>Brindisi Air Base<\/td>\n<td>LIBR<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Aeritalia G.91Y<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"faq\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Questions &amp; Answers<\/div>\n<h2>Everything people ask about Amendola Air Base<\/h2>\n<div class=\"qa\">\n<details open>\n<summary>What is Amendola Air Base known for?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Amendola is best known as the first base in Europe to operate the F-35: two F-35As arrived on 12 December 2016 and the Italian Air Force declared the type operational there on 30 November 2018, ahead of any other European air arm. It is also the home of Italy&rsquo;s armed remotely piloted aircraft, and the only base outside the United States flying both the F-35A and the short take-off F-35B. Before all that it was a Fifteenth Air Force heavy bomber field and then the place where Italy&rsquo;s first jets were delivered.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Which units are based at Amendola?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">The 32&#176; Stormo &quot;Armando Boetto&quot;. Its flying squadrons are the 13&#176; Gruppo on the F-35A, the 101&#176; Gruppo on the F-35B, reactivated on 1 July 2025, the 28&#176; Gruppo on the MQ-9A Reaper, and the 632&#170; Squadriglia liaison flight.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Was Amendola really the first F-35 base in Europe?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Yes. The first two Italian F-35As arrived on 12 December 2016, and the Italian Air Force declared initial operational capability for the 13&#176; Gruppo on 30 November 2018 with ten aircraft delivered. The Royal Air Force declared initial operational capability for its F-35Bs in January 2019. Israel, which is not in Europe, had declared its own F-35I operational in December 2017.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Is Amendola the largest air base in Italy?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">It is. The base covers about 1,050 hectares, which makes it the largest military airfield in Italy and, on the Italian Air Force&rsquo;s own account, the second largest in Europe after Ramstein in Germany. It is big enough to have its own residential village, the Villaggio Azzurro, for the people who work there.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Does Amendola fly drones?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Yes. The 28&#176; Gruppo has operated Italy&rsquo;s medium-altitude long-endurance aircraft from Amendola since 2005, first the Predator and now the MQ-9A Reaper. The squadron has flown over Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo and Libya, and has kept a detachment at Ali Al Salem in Kuwait since 2014. The last Italian Predators were withdrawn on 19 December 2022.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What happened at Amendola in the Second World War?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">It was an Allied airfield in the Foggia complex. American P-47s arrived on 27 October 1943, B-25s in November, and the B-17s of the 97th Bombardment Group on 16 January 1944; RAF Wellingtons and Liberators also flew from here. The base became part of the Balkan Air Force, which supplied Yugoslav and Greek partisans, and it included aircraft of the Italian co-belligerent air force.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Who was Luigi Rovelli, the man the airfield is named after?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Luigi Rovelli was born at Rodi Garganico on 25 April 1915, was commissioned in 1940 and flew torpedo bombers with the 281&#170; Squadriglia from August 1941. He was killed in action off Alexandria on 28 December 1941 and was awarded the Gold Medal for Military Valour posthumously by royal decree of 24 July 1942.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Can the public visit Amendola Air Base?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">No. Amendola is an operational military base with no public access. The wing occasionally takes part in open days and public events, and its aircraft appear at Italian air shows, but there is no visitor facility, museum or viewing area on the airfield itself.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Is Amendola Air Base still an active military air base?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Yes. Active (F-35A and F-35B, MQ-9A Reaper). The Italian Air Force operates it as 32&#176; Stormo &quot;Armando Boetto&quot;.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What is the ICAO code of Amendola Air Base?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">The ICAO code of Amendola Air Base is LIBA. The airfield sits at 56 m above sea level in Puglia, at 41.5384 N, 15.7172 E.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>How long is the runway at Amendola Air Base?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Amendola Air Base has one runway: 11\/29, 2,660 m (8,727 ft), asphalt.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Which squadrons are based at Amendola Air Base?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Amendola Air Base currently hosts 13&#176; Gruppo Caccia flying the Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II; 101&#176; Gruppo Caccia flying the Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II; 28&#176; Gruppo APR flying the General Atomics MQ-9A Reaper; 632&#170; Squadriglia Collegamenti flying the Aermacchi T-339A, Aermacchi MB-339CD II.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Which aircraft used to fly from Amendola Air Base?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Over its history Amendola Air Base has hosted Centro di Eccellenza APR (&mdash;) with the &mdash;; 60&#170; Brigata Aerea (1986&ndash;1993) with the Fiat G.91T.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\": \"FAQPage\", \"mainEntity\": [{\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What is Amendola Air Base known for?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Amendola is best known as the first base in Europe to operate the F-35: two F-35As arrived on 12 December 2016 and the Italian Air Force declared the type operational there on 30 November 2018, ahead of any other European air arm. 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You can fly the jet.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"adp\">MiGFlug flies the L-39 Albatros out of Florida &mdash; a real military jet trainer, a real second seat, aerobatics and time on the controls. Italian military airfields do not sell flights; this is the nearest thing there is.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/l-39-albatros-florida\/\">Fly the L-39 Albatros in Florida<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Continue the tour<\/div>\n<h2>Around Amendola Air Base<\/h2>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/italian-air-force\/\"><span class=\"rk\">The operator<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Italian Air Force<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Fleet, bases and order of battle of the service that flies from here.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Read the Italian Air Force page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-35-lightning-ii\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Based here<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II<\/span><span class=\"rp\">History, specifications and stories in the Book of Beasts.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Read the Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II story<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-35-lightning-ii\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Based here<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II<\/span><span class=\"rp\">History, specifications and stories in the Book of Beasts.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Read the Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II story<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section style=\"padding:48px 0 64px\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Sources &amp; Further Reading<\/div>\n<h2>Every fact, checked<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"srclist\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ourairports.com\/countries\/IT\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OurAirports: aerodrome and runway data<\/a><span>coordinates, elevations, runway designators, lengths and surfaces. 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