# Brescia Gabriele d'Annunzio Airport (VBS / LIPO)

**Brescia Gabriele d'Annunzio Airport** (IATA: VBS, ICAO: LIPO) is a medium airport in Montichiari (BS), Lombardy, Italy. It opened in 1909. It has one runway, 2,990 m (9,810 ft) long, asphalt. In 2025 it handled 4 thousand passengers.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/lipo

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: VBS / LIPO
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Montichiari (BS), Lombardy, Italy
- Opened: 1909
- Elevation: 108 m / 355 ft
- Coordinates: 45.4289, 10.3306
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 2,990 m / 9,810 ft
- Passengers: 4,392 (2025)
- Time zone: UTC+1/+2 · Europe/Rome
- Website: https://www.aeroportobrescia.it
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brescia_Airport (18 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1430989
- Weather station: LIPO
- Ident: LIPO

## Timeline

- 1909: Brescia Gabriele d'Annunzio Airport opens.

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 14/32 | 2,990 m / 9,810 ft | 45 m / 148 ft | Asphalt | 135° / 315° | yes |

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2014 | 9,940 | Eurostat |
| 2015 | 2,923 | Eurostat |
| 2016 | 13,161 | Eurostat |
| 2017 | 8,127 | Eurostat |
| 2018 | 3,436 | Eurostat |
| 2019 | 9,587 | Eurostat |
| 2020 | 1,882 | Eurostat |
| 2021 | 2,294 | Eurostat |
| 2022 | 3,178 | Eurostat |
| 2023 | 4,994 | Eurostat |
| 2024 | 3,790 | Eurostat |
| 2025 | 4,392 | Eurostat |

## Routes

1 destination in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (1)

- [FCO](https://dromopedia.com/airports/lirf.md) Rome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport · Italy · 432 km / 268 mi · Poste Air Cargo

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from VBS, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Hub airlines (1)

- M4 [Poste Air Cargo](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/poste-air-cargo) · 1

Former hub of [Air Bee](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/air-bee), [Fly Wex](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/fly-wex), [Ocean Airlines](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/ocean-airlines).

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 4K (2025) | #2,949 of 3,974 | #600 in Europe | #43 in IT |
| Longest runway | 2,990 m / 9,810 ft | =1,430 of 29,858 | =217 in Europe | #23 in IT |
| Elevation | 108 m / 355 ft | =30,038 of 43,403 | #3,436 in Europe | #252 in IT |
| Age | Opened 1909 | =12 of 15,079 | =6 in Europe | =1 in IT |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =646 in Europe | =27 in IT |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| APP | GARDA APP | 124.450 |
| TWR | TWR | 119.400 |

## Nearby airports

- [LIPL](https://dromopedia.com/airports/lipl.md) Ghedi Air Base · 4.9 km / 3.0 mi
- [VRN](https://dromopedia.com/airports/lipx.md) Verona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport · 44 km / 27 mi
- [BGY](https://dromopedia.com/airports/lime.md) Il Caravaggio International Airport · 55 km / 34 mi
- [PMF](https://dromopedia.com/airports/limp.md) Parma Airport · 67 km / 42 mi
- [LIMS](https://dromopedia.com/airports/lims.md) Piacenza San Damiano Air Base · 74 km / 46 mi
- [LIN](https://dromopedia.com/airports/liml.md) Milano Linate Airport · 82 km / 51 mi

## In collections

- [Oldest airports still open](https://dromopedia.com/collections/oldest) #10

## Sources

- [Eurostat](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/avia_paoa/default/table): Source: Eurostat (avia_paoa) (Eurostat reuse policy (CC BY 4.0))
- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Brescia Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brescia_Airport&oldid=1363022392), revision of 7 Jul 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/lipo/data