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Brescia Gabriele d'Annunzio Airport, also known as Brescia-Montichiari, lies in Lombardy close to the towns of Montichiari, Calcinato and Ghedi. It is a medium-sized civil airport with a single long ILS-equipped runway, making it a straightforward destination for VFR and IFR traffic in the plains south-east of Lake Garda.
Brescia Gabriele d'Annunzio Airport, commonly referred to as Brescia-Montichiari, is a medium-sized civil aerodrome serving Brescia and the surrounding Lombardy region. It handles passenger and cargo traffic and is named after the Italian poet and aviator Gabriele d'Annunzio. For a simulator pilot it offers a single substantial hard-surfaced runway with an ILS, giving good practice for approaches into a regional airport set among the flat farmland south of Lake Garda.
The airport sits at Montichiari in the province of Brescia (BS), Lombardy, at coordinates 45.4289N, 10.3306E. It lies close to other Lombard airfields, with Calcinato around 4 km to the north-north-east and Ghedi, home to an Italian Air Force base, about 4 km to the west. Approach control in the area is provided under the callsign Garda Approach.
Brescia-Montichiari has a single physical runway, 14/32, oriented north-west to south-east. Runway 32 is 9168 feet long with a hard surface, lit, and equipped with an ILS; runway 14 is 8831 feet long, also hard-surfaced and lit. The field elevation is 341 feet.
Traffic is worked by Garda Approach on 124.45 MHz, with the tower frequency on 119.4 MHz. Runway 32 is served by an ILS for instrument approaches.
Brescia-Montichiari operates as a scheduled and cargo airport under the IATA code VBS, run by the LM Aeroporti d'Italia group. Further operational information is available from the airport's own website.