Pisa International Airport Pisa International Airport Pisa International Airport () , also named Galileo Galilei Airport is an airport located in Pisa, Italy. It is the main airport in Tuscany and the 10th in Italy in terms of passengers. It is named after Galileo Galilei, the famous scientist and native of Pisa. The airport was first developed for the military in the 1930s and 1940s. The airport was used by 5,233,118 passengers in 2017. It serves as a focus city of Ryanair. The airport had its own railway station with a service to and from Pisa Central railway station but this was closed
Italian submarine Galileo Galilei were transferred to Massawa in Eritrea where she formed 81st Squadron of VIII Submarine Group. At the time of Italy's entrance into World War II "Galileo Galilei" was stationed at the Italian base of Massawa on the Red Sea being part of the Italian Red Sea Flotilla. On June 10, 1940 the submarine under command of captain Corrado Nardi was ordered to proceed to her area of operation near Aden where she arrived on June 12. In the early morning of June 16, while submerged, she intercepted Norwegian tanker , about 12 miles south of Aden. After surfacing and ordering