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Airport HistoryEst. 1961
Pisa's airport began in 1911 as a flying field at San Giusto built by local aviation pioneers, later becoming a military airbase that was heavily bombed in World War II and served briefly as a U.S. 15th Air Force base. Rebuilt postwar and given a dedicated civil terminal named for Galileo Galilei in the early 1960s, it became one of Italy's fastest-growing airports in the mid-2000s and, now a major Ryanair base connected to Pisa's rail network by the Pisa Mover since 2017, serves several million passengers a year.
Pisan brothers Ugo and Guido Antoni set up a flying field at San Giusto to test aircraft built by their family's aviation company, the earliest origin of the airport site.
The site hosts the 25th and 38th Squadriglie of the Italian air force, cementing its role as a military airfield through the interwar period.
The airfield is heavily bombed during World War II and later used as a base for the U.S. Army Air Forces' 15th Air Force near the end of the conflict.
A dedicated civil terminal, designed by architect Lamberto Bartolucci and named for Galileo Galilei, is developed through the 1960s–70s, establishing Pisa as a commercial passenger airport alongside its continued military use.
Passenger numbers rise 30% in 2006 and a further 24% in 2007, making Pisa the fastest-growing airport among Italy's top 15 and pushing it to become Italy's 11th-busiest by 2008.
Operator Toscana Aeroporti launches a major expansion and modernization program worth around €60 million.
The Pisa Mover automated people-mover opens, giving the airport a direct link to Pisa Centrale railway station and the wider Italian rail network.
General encyclopedic sources (Wikipedia, including the Italian-language article for early history). English-language sources are thin on the airport's pre-1960s civil history, so the 1911–1961 timeline draws primarily on the Italian Wikipedia article — treat early dates as reasonably but not exhaustively cross-verified.