Blog Jahr 2017

Payerne is the largest Air Base of the Swiss Air Force. It hosts Fighter squadrons Sqd17 Falcons and Sqd18 Panthers, the militia F-5E Tiger II Squadron 6 Ducks and the Transport squadron LT1. Every year the troops are doing a two-week Repetition...

Meiringen is one of four Fighter Air Bases of the Swiss Air Force. Every year pilots of the Fighter Squadron 11 (F/A-18 Hornet), Fighter Squadron 8 (F-5Tiger) and ground crews of the Swiss Air Force are training their skills during a WK...

The "Air Zermatt" was founded in 1968 with a helicopter, a pilot and a mechanic. Currently, the company employs about 65 people on the three bases Gampel, Raron and Zermatt. Nine helicopters are flying today in the fleet of "Air Zermatt": 2 Lamas,...

During the FIS Alpine Ski World Championships 2017 in St. Moritz the Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) was flying an air display with a new Bombardier CSeries 100 Airplane together with the "Patrouille Suisse". I made a one day trip to St....