Corrado Gex started his aviation activity in 1960, when he was 28, just a few months after having been elected AostaValley councillor for the Education.
He immediately understood that it was necessary to form a new awareness about the alpine aviation and the organisation of this service.
The alpine flight became for him a new reason of life, a sort of mission inspired by the famous “glacier pilots”.

His activity in favour of the mountain aviation took into consideration both social and sportive sides, always with the goal to make the aeronautical conscience to grow, in AostaValley and in Italy too.
In 1963 spring, Corrado Gex was elected Aosta Valley Deputy to the Italian Parliament and he became member of the Transports Commission.
In Rome he started to make his colleagues members of the Parliament aware of the problems concerning the aviation in the alpine environment.
In November 1964 he was allowed by the Minister of Transport to make experimental landing and take off out of an airport.
After Corrado Gex tragic death in April 1966, his aviation plans and programmes were supported in Parliament by all his colleagues who had subscribed the parliamentary bill by him presented.
At the beginning of 1967 the Italian Ministry of Transport granted the first temporary authorisations to operate with aircraft, out of airport, over surfaces covered with snow.
Corrado Gex bill was approved by the Parliament and Senate of the ItalianRepublic on 2 April 1968.