President: Stefano Arcifa
Chief Executive : Roberto Boi
History of AeCi
Costitution
The first body to coordinate aviation activities, the Società Aeronautica Italiana (SAI or Italian Aviation Society) was established in March 1904 in Rome, some five years before the first flight over Italy. The SAI was one of the founding members of the International Federation (Paris, 12 October 1905). The first aviation club (which for a brief period was known as d’Italia) was founded in Padua on 18 February 1910. In 1911, the members of the Club Aviatori (Aviation Club) founded the Aero Club d'Italia, later gaining non profit organisation status by decree no. 1452 of 25/7/1926.
The following year the association changed its name to Reale Aero Club d'Italia (RAeCI or Royal Italian Aero Club), changing again in 1936 to Reale Unione Nazionale Aeronautica (RUNA or Royal National Aviation Association). The first Air Tour of Italy took place in 1930. In March 1950 the Aero Club incorporated the Federazione Italiana del Volo a Vela (FIVV or Italian Gliding Federation), established in Milan in 1946. A law of 29/5/1954 conferred the Body “legal status for the discipline and organisation of activities in the aviation field”. Competition parachuting was incorporated into the Aero Club in October 1963.
Denomination
The current name was defined in 1911 and, after the changing into RAeCI first (in 1927) and then into RUNA (in 1936), it was then resumed after the war (in 1947).
First National Championships
1950.
Presidents
1898 -1902 Roberto Biscaretti di Ruffia
1948 -1964 Manillo Zerbinati
1964 Iginio Guagnellini
1964 -1966 Franco Palma (commissioner)
1966 -1970 Franco Palma
1970 -1974 Vittore Catella
1974 -1978 Raffaello Teti
1978 -1986 Guido Baracca
1986 - 2002 Mario Testa
2002 - 2005 Giuseppe Leoni (commissioner)
2005 - 2009 Giuseppe Leoni
2010 - 2013 Giuseppe Leoni (commissioner)
2013 - 2017 Giuseppe Leoni
2018 - 2019 Pierluigi Matera (commissioner)
2019 - 2019 Guido Valori (commissioner)
2020 - 2025 Giuseppe Leoni
2025 - Stefano Arcifa
Secretaries
1948 -1954 Eugenio Gandolfi
1955 -1964 Giuseppe Maceratini
1965 -1973 Giuseppe Donno
1974 -1975 Gustavo Garretto
1975 -1978 Giovanni De Siati
1978 -1983 Giulio Rosica
1983 -1985 Rodolfo Baldesi (acting)
1985 -1989 Mario De Paolis
1989 -1993 Franco Romagnoli
1993 - 2002 Vittorio Zardo
2002 - 2003 Vincenzo Basile (DG)
2003 - 2006 Franco Romagnoli (DG)
2007 - 2010 Fabio Del Meglio (DG)
2011- 2013 Carlo Landi (DG)
2013 - 2018 Gen. Giulio Cacciatore (DG)
2018 - Gen. Giuseppe D’Accolti (DG)
2019 - Natale Forlani (DG)
2019- 2020 Mario Tassini (DG)
2020 - 2024 Gianpaolo Miniscalco (DG)
2024 - Roberto Boi