Mini tour of Swiss bases and log 7-Jul & 9 Jul 2025

[IMarsh]

Dubendorf

Nothing visible outside and being a Monday the museum was closed so only logged the F-5E on a pole outside the museum that is marked as J-3096 but I understand it is really J-3013.

Emmen

This was the best of the day and all below were seen over a period of about 2 hours between 12:00 and 14:00 local

PC-21's: A-101, A-102, A-103, A-104, A-107 and A-108. All except A-108 flew early afternoon

Hunter on pole: J-4070

F-18D : J-5232 parked over by RUAG maintenance area, J-5236 went out early afternoon
F-18C: J-5003, J-5006 went out early afternoon with J-5236.

The F-18's except for J-5232 occupied the 8 bay's in the hangar nearest the parking/viewing area. J-5236 was in bay 2, J-5006 in bay 7 and J-5003 in bay 8. All 8 bays had a jet in them, but the doors on the other bays weren't open enough to read off the serials

Drone in hangar across the road from the airfield: D-16

4 F-5's in hangar along with possibly a second large drone. One of the F-5's was J-3212, couldn't read the other 3 nor the drone

EC635 T-356 made a brief visit

PC-7 A-913 did a single low pass

Alpnach

The Citation T-784 and Cougar T-335 that were showing present when I was at Emmen had left (Citation) or nowhere to be seen (Cougar).

Alouette 3: V-262 outside the restaurant on a pole.

Meiringen

Very quiet but noted the following

F-5E: J-3008 pole mounted next to base restaurant.
F-18: X-5098 instructional airframe outside the hangar being worked upon before being towed back inside.

In "hangar 1" which is open some days but not when I was there I could see:-
F-5E J-3073
Alouette 3: V-236

Belp/Berne airport

No military visible and in heavy rain I wasn't going to walk around noting civil stuff!



Overall despite the lousy weather and a lot of driving I was quite pleased with what I saw.

Finally if anyone can help with the missing serials for the F-5's and F-18's at Emmen, much appreciated.

[Nighthawke]

According to PlaneBase J-3096 is correct and was previously marked as "J-3013". The real J-3013 was written off in a mid-air collision in 1981:

https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/121313

[IMarsh]

According to PlaneBase J-3096 is correct and was previously marked as "J-3013". The real J-3013 was written off in a mid-air collision in 1981:

https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/121313

Thanks for the clarification, much appreciated

[NorvilleRogers]

The Swiss have two replica F-18s used for ground training X-5098 and X-5099 made by a local Swiss company.

[IMarsh]

With unexpected free time on the 9-Jul I revisited some of the above locations and here is my log:

Alpnach

Between 09:30 and 10:30 approx

EC-635: T-356

Super Puma: T-311, T-313

Cougar: T-335, T-337, T-342

PC-6: V-614

Emmen

Between 11:00 and 12:15 approx

PC-21: A-106

F-18C: J-5002, J-5006, J-5008, J-5014, J-5018 "Panthers special tail", J-5021, J-5023

F-18D: J-5236

All eight F-18's were flying and returned as a 3-ship and a 5-ship around 12 noon

Dubendorf

Between 13:00 and 15:30 approx

Cougar: T-334, T-336

PC-6: V-622 Patrouille Swiss scheme

B350: T-721

EC635: T-355, T-358

PC-21: A-101, A-102, A-103, A-107

Challenger: T-752

DHC-6: T-741, visible inside hangar

The museum at Dubendorf is well worth a visit, check their website for opening hours. In hall one, upstairs, you get a good view of the airfield, including over to the hangars

[Kurnass]

Stans houses many Spanish PC-21’s and a German WTD-61 PC-12 at the moment. Might be worth visiting, as its very close to Emmen and Alpnach

[IMarsh]

Stans houses many Spanish PC-21’s and a German WTD-61 PC-12 at the moment. Might be worth visiting, as its very close to Emmen and Alpnach

I did consider a quick visit when I was driving from Alpnach and Emmen, but ADSBExchange was only showing civil traffic at Stans and my mind was on Emmen in case any F-18's were out and returning just before lunch which they did. Maybe one for another trip