Bresso Airfield (Italian: Aeroporto di Bresso, ICAO: LIMB), also known as Aeroporto Giampiero Clerici, is an aerodrome in Bresso, in the Milan metropolitan area.^[1]

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Bresso Airfield Aeroporto G. Clerici
Aerial view of the aerodrome
IATA: none ICAO: LIMB
Summary
Airport type	Public
Serves	Milan, Italy
Location	Bresso
Opened	1912 (1912)
Elevation AMSL	146 m / 479 ft
Coordinates	45°32′22″N 009°12′08″E
Map
LIMB Location of aerodrome on map of Milan Location of aerodrome on map of Lombardy LIMB Location of Lombardy region in Italy
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 18/36 1,080 3,543 Asphalt

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Originally built in 1912, the field served as a factory airfield until the nearby Breda factory expanded its production to military aircraft for World War I.^[2] From 1931 to 1933 it housed the Regia Aeronautica's Terzo Stormo. On April 30, 1944, the Breda factory and the airfield were heavily bombed by 53 American Boeing B-17. Seven aircraft and a few hangars went completely destroyed. At the end of World War II the airport was mostly used as a military flying training camp and to field fighter aircraft as part of the defence system of the city.

In 1960, it became the permanent site of the Aero Club Milano. Since then the airport mostly serves as a general aviation airfield for flying club activity, touristic flights and air taxi.^[3] It also hosts a base of the state helicopter emergency service Elisoccorso.^[4]

On June 3, 2012, on the occasion of the seventh World Meeting of Families promoted by the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI celebrated a mass on the tarmac in front of a million of pilgrims.^[5]

The airport runway is 1,080 metres (3,540 ft) long and 30 metres (98 ft) wide. It has a magnetic orientation (QFU) 36/18.^[6]

• Bresso Radio 122.005
• Milano Informazioni 124.925
• Linate Tower 118.100
• Milano Approach 126.300^[7]