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Swiss Air Force
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SWISS AIR FORCE[2]
The Swiss Air Force (German: Schweizer Luftwaffe; French: Forces aériennes suisses; Italian: Forze aeree svizzere; Romansh: Aviatica militara svizra) is the air component of the Swiss Armed Forces, established on 31 July 1914, three days after the outbreak of World War I, as a part of the army and in October 1936 as an independent service.
In peacetime, Dübendorf is the operational air force headquarters. The Swiss Air Force operates from several fixed bases (see current status) but its personnel are also trained to carry out air operations from temporary highway airstrips. In case of crisis or war, several stretches of road are specially prepared for this option.
neutral Swiss airspace. The SwissAirForce as an autonomous military service was created in October 1936. After World War II it was renamed the SwissAir Force...
Since its formation, the SwissAirForce has used a number of different aircraft. Hoyle, Craig (2023). "World Air Forces 2024". FlightGlobal. Retrieved...
Jahrhundert Schweizer Luftwaffe". lw.admin.ch. Aeropublications, 324 pages, SwissAirForce. 2013. ISBN 978-3-9524239-0-5. Archived from the original on 15 August...
allowed Switzerland to retire its Hunters earlier than expected; the Hunter was completely withdrawn from Swiss service in 1994. The SwissAirForce lost...
both sides. During the Battle of France, the SwissAirForce shot down eleven German planes violating Swiss airspace for the loss of three planes in return...
MD-11. Before his career with Swissair, he was a fighter pilot in the SwissAirForce from 1966 to 1970. Zimmermann was described as a friendly person with...
Emmen (Emmen Military Air Base) (IATA: EML, ICAO: LSME) is a military airfield of the SwissAirForce north of Emmen, Switzerland, located northwest of...
Ecuadorian AirForce in January 2014. Also, the Uruguayan and Swiss governments discussed a possible agreement for the purchase of ten SwissAirForce Northrop...
of the SwissAirForce north of Payerne in Switzerland, located approximately halfway between Lausanne and Bern. In 2004 the International Air Show Air04...
Saner (19 February 2014). "The Swissairforce: armed and dangerous, but only in office hours". The Guardian. "Swiss Airforce Grounded During Hijacking...
Manager Support Command Swiss Senior Staff Officer at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy Swiss Senior Staff Officer at KFOR Swiss Military Representative...
produce 100 Mirage III fighters for the SwissAirForce. Accordingly, Mirages were manufactured in Switzerland by F+W Emmen (today RUAG, the federal government...
Hunter had a very long career in SwissAirForce from the late 1950s until they were retired in 1994. The SwissAirForce operated 160 aircraft, both new...
completed in 2007. In April 2006, the Swiss Defence Procurement Agency (Armasuisse) ordered 20 EC635s for the SwissAirForce, to replace the aging Aérospatiale...
Meiringen, in the canton of Bern. It is one of three main airbases of the SwissAirForce. The airfield is situated in the steep-sided alpine valley of the Aar...
Ukrainian AirForce (Ukrainian: Повітряні сили Збройних сил України, romanized: Povitryani syly Zbroynykh syl Ukrayiny, PS ZSU) is the airforce of Ukraine...
Credit Suisse, Barry Callebaut, Swiss Re, Rolex, Tetra Pak, Swatch Group and Swiss International Air Lines. Switzerland's most important economic sector...
in substantial numbers to Iraq, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland and Venezuela. The SwissAirForce was the final operator to use the type in an active...
the busiest airports in SwitzerlandSwissAirForce Transport in Switzerland List of airports by ICAO code: L#LS – Switzerland and Liechtenstein Wikipedia:...
In the SwissAirForce, an aircraft usually isn't deployed permanently to a given Squadron, which is especially true of the [militia] squadrons who are...
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