Society Aeronautic Italian, Section Turin
Founded at Rome, 3 Mar. 1904, when its first statutes (bylaws) were adopted, the Societa Aeronautica Italiana (SAI) was one of the 8 national organizations that met in Paris 12-14 Oct. 1905 to put together the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI). From the beginning, it appears the SAI functioned as a local organization in Rome and as a national organization for Italy. In 1905, sections were formed in Turin (SAI Sezione di Torino) and Milan (SAI Sezione di Milano) and by then the local effort in Rome was the SAI Sezione di Roma. According to its 1906 statutes, the SAI consisted of founding members and in autonomous sections based in Rome and other cities of Italy (though none were named), with a central department (Direzione Centrale or DC) resident at the headquarters (Sede Social) in Rome. The president of the Rome section served as the general president of the SAI who, along with delegates from each section, comprised the DC. In 1909, there appear to have been new bylaws and the DC was renamed the Consiglio General (CG) or General Council. The CG included delegates from the SAI, the Societa Italiana di Aviazione (SIA), the Touring Club Italiano, and the Automobile Club d'Italia.
There were said to be 29 members of the Sezione di Torino in 1907. In 1910, S.E. Tommaso Villa was honorary president, Filippo Annibali was president, and there were some 65 members. In 1911, the Societa Aeronautica Italiana dissolved and was reconstituted as the Aero Club d'Italia (AeCI), which see. While the Sezione di Torino became a section of the AeCI at the latter's founding, it continued to be called the Societa Aeronautica Italiana, Sezione di Torino. In 1914, the AeCI began publication of the Revista Italiana di Aeronautica as the official journal of the AeCI and its affiliates. The 1914 volume was numbered Vol. 9 to indicate that it was the direct successor of the Revista Tecnica d'Aeronautica. In Vols. 9-13 (1914-Sept. 1918), the affilates of the AeCI were listed as the Società Aeronautica Italiana Sezione di Milano, the Società Aviazione Torino, and the Aero Club di Roma. This suggests that as of 1914, if not earlier, the SAI Sezione di Torino had either ceased its affiliation with the AeCI, had ceased to exist, or had merged with the Societa Aviazione Torino, which had been founded in 1909.
The "Regolamento per la Coppa Aeronautica 'Regina Marherita di Savoia per il passaggio delle Alpi in aerosato," published by the SAI, apparently in 1906, mentions the SAI DC in Rome as well the sections in Rome, Turin, and Milan.
Affiliated withSAI, 1905-1910; ACd'I, 1911-
Sources
- SAI, Statuto Sociale (1906); SAI, Regolamento per la Coppa Aeronautica "Regina Marherita di Savoia" per il passaggio delle Alpi in aerosato (1906); Pocket-Book of Aeronautics 443-444 (Eng. ed., Jan. 1907); 1:5 Aeronautics (NYC) 46 (1907); 1910 Brockett 61, 783; Braunbeck's Sport-Lexicon: Luftschiffahrt, 1911, 169; 1910 Annuario dell' Aeronautica Primo 343-344 (Sept. 1910); 1911-1912 Annuario dell' Aeronautica 390-393, 405-406 (Sept. 1911); Aéro-Manuel 1911 367 (1 Oct. 1910);1915 Annuario dell' Aeronautica 785, 792 (May 1915); 1921 Brockett 1139; National Union Catalog Pre-1956 Imprints; WorldCat.org and WorldCat-OCLC; Dir1920
| Organization names | Society Aeronautic Italian, Section Turin : Societa Aeronautica Italiana, Sezione di Torino |
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| Country | Italy |
| Locations | Turin |
| Affiliated with | SAI, ACd'I |
| Scope | Local |
| Started aero | 1905 |
| Ended aero | 1920 or later |
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- Address: 2 via Davide Bertoletti, Turin (at least 1906-1907); 16 Via Ettore de Sonnaz (1910); Galleria Nazionale, Turin (1910). In 1915, the secretariat was at 52 Corso Regina Margherita, Turin, while the society was at 6 Via Cernaia, Turin.
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