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Alpi Eagles

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ777325 ↗
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Alpi Eagles SpA was an airline headquartered in Sant'Angelo di Piove di Sacco, Italy. The privately owned regional airline operated scheduled passenger services, linking 15 domestic destinations, as well as international services to Albania, Czech Republic, France, Romania, Russia, Spain and Ukraine. Its main base was Venice Marco Polo Airport.

History

The company was founded in 1979 as an acrobatic team. From 1984 it focused exclusively on air taxis and private flights with Gates Learjet 25, Gates Learjet 35, Gates Learjet 55, Cessna Citation. It became a fully-fledged airline in 1986. The first scheduled flights began in June 1996. Three years later, the network included five domestic destinations and the Venice-Athens route. A majority of the shares were later purchased by Paolo Sinigalia, owner of the Simod shoe factory, in Padova, Italy.

One of the company's decisions was to "cut" the scheduled block times (scheduled time from engine start to engine shut down), because pilots were paid based on their block time.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Alpi Eagles” as airline. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 1984, 1986, 1996—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979. The account is most persuasive where Alpi, Eagles and airline can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as airline. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q777325. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1979, 1984, 1986 and 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alpi Eagles” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.