Gela-West

37°04'44"N 014°14'10"E

Runway: 00/00 - 0000meters/0000feet - surface

Gela-West air field (also known as Manji Lungo) was an airfield in the south of Sicily, Italy.
It was built by the U.S. 809th Engineer Aviation Batallion in 1943. It was used briefly by the RAF's 18 Sqn, but they soon found it unsuitable to be used.


No photos of Gela-East have been located thusfar.

Today the airfield is built over by a suburb of Gela.

No traces of the airfield are known to remain.


Aerial photo of Gela-West showing nothing remains after the area was built over by the outskits of Gela (Google Earth)