As read on the official A.N.P.d'I. website, on May 12, 2026, a technical survey was conducted at the Valdera airfield, home of the Aero Club of Pisa, by the Experiences and Studies Office of the Paratroopers Brigade “Folgore” on some materials used by the National Association of Italian Paratroopers.
The meeting is part of the initial operational steps related to the implementation of circular 7044, a document set to mark an important phase for the future of A.N.P.d'I.'s parachuting activities and the relationship between the military component of the paratrooper specialty and the association.
Materials, parachutes, and aircraft at the center of the survey
During the day, the staff of the Experiences and Studies Office, within the functions assigned to the USE and CAPAR by circular 7044 with specific reference to A.N.P.d'I.'s activities, inspected some parachutes used by the Association and some aircraft employable for parachuting activities.
Among these, a Cessna 207 and a Partenavia P68 were examined, aircraft already known in the light aviation scene and usable in contexts compatible with training and association needs.
The survey was not only a moment of technical verification but also an opportunity for direct dialogue between military personnel and Association representatives, with a long discussion on the next steps necessary to achieve the full and complete implementation of the circular.
A technical, organizational, and identity path
Circular 7044 opens a path that cannot be exhausted in a single formal act. The orderly and structured resumption of A.N.P.d'I.'s parachuting activities will indeed require a phase of technical, organizational, and procedural adjustment, in which materials, aircraft, safety standards, responsibilities, and operational methods must find full harmonization.
For this reason, the survey of May 12 assumes significant value: it represents one of the first concrete steps towards the restart of the Association's most characteristic activity, the one that more than any other preserves its spirit, memory, and connection with the paratrooper specialty.
“Folgore in arms” and “Folgore in civil society”
The occasion was also a test, in this 2026, of the idem sentire between the “Folgore in arms” and the “Folgore in civil society”, as A.N.P.d'I. likes to consider itself.
An expression that encompasses much more than a simple symbolic closeness: it recalls an ideal, moral, and identity continuity between those who serve today in the ranks of the Paratroopers Brigade “Folgore” and those who, having completed active service or coming from the associative world, continue to live and pass on the values of the specialty.
The resumption of parachuting activities can thus represent not only a technical and regulatory achievement but also an important signal of continuity for the entire Italian paratrooper community.
The Sky returns to the center
For A.N.P.d'I., the sky is not just a physical space. It is the symbolic place where the identity of the paratrooper is formed, recognized, and renewed. The Valdera survey thus marks a first step in a direction long awaited: that of a serious, responsible, and shared resumption of associative parachuting activities.
The signal from the meeting between the Experiences and Studies Office of the Folgore and the representatives of A.N.P.d'I. is clear: the path has begun, and the paratrooper community is once again looking towards the sky.
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