Castel Benito was an airport of Tripoli created by the Italians in Italian Libya in the early 1930s. It was called RAF Castel Benito by the Allies after 1943.

The Ascari del Cielo were the first paratroopers of the Italian Armed Forces. They all were born in Libya and with Arab-Berber ethnicity. They constituted the majority of the troops of the Battalion "