The Swiss Air Force (German: Schweizer Luftwaffe; French: Forces aériennes suisses; Italian: Forze aeree svizzere; Romansh: Aviatica militara svizra)...
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neutral Swiss airspace. The Swiss Air Force as an autonomous military service was created in October 1936. After World War II it was renamed the Swiss Air Force...
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Since its formation, the Swiss Air Force has used a number of different aircraft. Hoyle, Craig (2023). "World Air Forces 2024". FlightGlobal. Retrieved...
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The Swiss Armed Forces (German: Schweizer Armee; French: Armée suisse; Italian: Esercito svizzero; Romansh: Armada svizra; lit. 'Swiss Army') operates...
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both sides. During the Battle of France, the Swiss Air Force shot down eleven German planes violating Swiss airspace for the loss of three planes in return...
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Hawker Hunter (section Swiss Air Force)
allowed Switzerland to retire its Hunters earlier than expected; the Hunter was completely withdrawn from Swiss service in 1994. The Swiss Air Force lost...
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Jahrhundert Schweizer Luftwaffe". lw.admin.ch. Aeropublications, 324 pages, Swiss Air Force. 2013. ISBN 978-3-9524239-0-5. Archived from the original on 15 August...
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Swissair Flight 111 (redirect from Swiss Air 111)
MD-11. Before his career with Swissair, he was a fighter pilot in the Swiss Air Force from 1966 to 1970. Zimmermann was described as a friendly person with...
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Ecuadorian Air Force in January 2014. Also, the Uruguayan and Swiss governments discussed a possible agreement for the purchase of ten Swiss Air Force Northrop...
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Ethiopian Airlines Flight 702 (category Switzerland articles missing geocoordinate data)
Saner (19 February 2014). "The Swiss air force: armed and dangerous, but only in office hours". The Guardian. "Swiss Airforce Grounded During Hijacking...
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of the Swiss Air Force north of Payerne in Switzerland, located approximately halfway between Lausanne and Bern. In 2004 the International Air Show Air04...
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Manager Support Command Swiss Senior Staff Officer at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy Swiss Senior Staff Officer at KFOR Swiss Military Representative...
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Emmen (Emmen Military Air Base) (IATA: EML, ICAO: LSME) is a military airfield of the Swiss Air Force north of Emmen, Switzerland, located northwest of...
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Meiringen, in the canton of Bern. It is one of three main airbases of the Swiss Air Force. The airfield is situated in the steep-sided alpine valley of the Aar...
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Dübendorf) (ICAO: LSMD) was a military airfield of the Swiss Air Force northeast of Dübendorf in Switzerland, located east of Zürich. The search for a suitable...
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Hunter had a very long career in Swiss Air Force from the late 1950s until they were retired in 1994. The Swiss Air Force operated 160 aircraft, both new...
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Pilatus PC-7 (category 1960s Swiss military trainer aircraft)
cockpit avionics, developed for the Swiss Air Force. The designation NCPC-7 has been provisionally used in the Swiss Air Force to differentiate modernized PC-7s...
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Ukrainian Air Force (Ukrainian: Повітряні сили Збройних сил України, romanized: Povitryani syly Zbroynykh syl Ukrayiny, PS ZSU) is the air force of Ukraine...
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Dassault Mirage III (section Switzerland)
produce 100 Mirage III fighters for the Swiss Air Force. Accordingly, Mirages were manufactured in Switzerland by F+W Emmen (today RUAG, the federal government...
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Pilatus PC-9 (category 1980s Swiss military trainer aircraft)
operators around the world, including the Swiss Air Force, Croatian Air Force, Royal Thai Air Force and the Irish Air Corps The PC-9 is a more powerful evolution...
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Swiss Air-Rescue (German: Schweizerische Rettungsflugwacht, French: Garde aérienne suisse de sauvetage, Italian: Guardia aerea svizzera di soccorso, Rega)...
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Northrop F-5 (section Switzerland)
a referendum by the Swiss people decided against the purchase of the Gripens. For the foreseeable future, the Swiss Air Force will continue to fly its...
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Patrouille Suisse (category Swiss Air Force)
from service. The Swiss parliament decided not to purchase 22 Gripen E replacement aircraft. In summer of 2014, the Swiss Air Force released plans to...
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Credit Suisse, Barry Callebaut, Swiss Re, Rolex, Tetra Pak, Swatch Group and Swiss International Air Lines. Switzerland's most important economic sector...
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in substantial numbers to Iraq, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland and Venezuela. The Swiss Air Force was the final operator to use the type in an active...
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completed in 2007. In April 2006, the Swiss Defence Procurement Agency (Armasuisse) ordered 20 EC635s for the Swiss Air Force, to replace the aging Aérospatiale...
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Pilatus PC-21 (category 2000s Swiss military trainer aircraft)
the Swiss Parliament approved an initial purchase of the PC-21 for the Swiss Air Force. By April 2008, four PC-21 have been accepted by the Swiss Air Force...
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Hellenic Air Force (HAF; Greek: Πολεμική Αεροπορία, romanized: Polemikí Aeroporía, lit. 'Military Aviation', sometimes abbreviated as ΠΑ) is the air force of...
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In the Swiss Air Force, 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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