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Meiringen

General Situation

Situated east of the "Brienzersee", Meiringen is of the F-18 bases in Switzerland. It also hosts F-5.

 

Description

Coming from Interlaken, take the motorway exit at "Unterbach" and stay on the left hand side. The base is on your left side

 

General Tips/Interesting Visitors

There are some F-5 and from time to time also some F-18s based here.

 

Frequencies

The tower frequency is 130.150 MHz

 

Recent Experiences

It is possible to photograph the aircraft on the taxyway from off base with around 135 mm lens.

 

Remarks

Meiringen will be one of three Jet bases of the Swiss Air Force and is the only one with underground shelters.

Average number of jet operations in the past:

Average 1990 – 1997 3433 Missions
Average 1998 – 2002 (while rebuilding the caverns) 2241 Missions
2003 1408 Missions
Estimate for 2004 1500 Missions

Due to the importance as touristic area, the numbers of missions in the months of July to September will be reduced to 300 missions.

Articles related to this military airport can be found here:

# TITLE CREATION DATE LAST UPDATE
1 Wrong number 22 April 2012 21 September 2012
2 Meiringen 2012 18 March 2012 18 March 2012
3 Exercice STABANTE 9 October 2011 9 October 2011
4 Swiss AF Jet Ops 2010 18 June 2011 18 June 2011
5 50th NTM 21 May 2011 21 May 2011
6 Swiss AF F-5 used to tow targets 17 December 2010 17 December 2010
7 New Night Flying Schedule 26 September 2009 26 September 2009
8 New viewing terrace at Meiringen 16 October 2007 30 January 2008
9 Training Course @ Meiringen 23 May 2004 6 May 2007
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