Itavia
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Itavia was an Italian airline founded in 1958 and based at Rome Ciampino Airport. During the 1960s it became one of the main private airlines of Italy, until its collapse in the early 1980s, following the loss of Flight 870, also known as the "Ustica Disaster". Itavia was headquartered in Rome.
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- Instance of
- airline
- Country
- Italy
- Legal form
- joint-stock company
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- Handley Page Herald 203 I-TIVE Itavia RWY 02.06.66 edited-2.jpg
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- airline hub
- Rome Ciampino Airport
- Commons category
- Itavia
- IATA airline designator
- IH
- inception
- 1958-00-00
- location of formation
- Rome
- ICAO airline designator
- IH
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1981-07-31
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Itavia was an Italian airline founded in 1958 and based at Rome Ciampino Airport. During the 1960s it became one of the main private airlines of Italy, until its collapse in the early 1980s, following the loss of Flight 870, also known as the "Ustica Disaster". Itavia was headquartered in Rome.
==History== The airline was formed under the name of Società di Navigazione Aerea Itavia in 1958 and started domestic services a year later using de Havilland DH.104 Dove and de Havilland DH.114 Heron aircraft. Operations were suspended in 1961 after an aircraft crash, but resumed in 1962 under the name Aerolinee Itavia. The Herons were replaced by a handful of Douglas DC 3 and, in 1963, by the more modern Handley Page HPR-7 Herald, a pressurised turboprop airliner. The Heralds remained in service until 1973.
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