Aerolinee Itavia
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![Itavia Handley Page Herald turboprop airliner at Manchester Airport in 1966.](/Images/godic/202501/21/HP_HPR.7_Herald_203_I-TAVE_Itavia_RWY_02.06.66_edited-24205.jpg")
![Aerolinee Itavia Fokker F28 Fellowship taken at Geneva Airport in 1974](/Images/godic/202501/21/Fokker_F.28-1000_I-TIDA_Itavia_GVA_23.03.74_edited-34205.jpg")
![Aerolinee Itavia DC-9 I-TIGI at Pisa Airport in June 1973. This aircraft was destroyed in the crash of Flight 870.](/Images/godic/202501/21/Itavia_DC-9_I-TIGI4205.jpg")
Aerolinee Itavia SpA was one of the principal private Italian airlines in the 1960s until its collapse in the early 1980s, after the infamous Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 crash, also known as the Ustica disaster.
Its head office was in Rome. It opened in 1958.