Buochs Airport
Buochs Airport Flugplatz Buochs | ||
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AMSL 1,475 ft / 450 m | | |
Coordinates | 46°58′28″N 8°23′49″E / 46.97444°N 8.39694°E | |
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The Buochs Airport
Operation
The airfield is formally the responsibility of the Swiss Air Force, but is operated by the Civil Airport Buochs AG. Since 1 January 2004, the military airfield Buochs is a "sleeping base" of the Air Force. In case of an extraordinary situation the entire military infrastructure of the airfield can be made operational again. However, there are considerations that the military withdraws completely from the airfield.[1]
Use
Next to the aircraft cavern near the airport is the factory premises of the Pilatus Aircraft who use the airfield including for test flights.
History
In Buochs especially the aircraft Dassault Mirage III S, Mirage IIIRS, MirageIIIBS, IIIDS Mirage and F-5E were used. Pilatus use this airfield for all test- and delivery flights for the products manufactured by Pilatus aircraft such as the Pilatus P-3, Pilatus PC-7, Pilatus PC-8D Twin Porter, Pilatus PC-9, Pilatus PC-12 and Pilatus PC-21 Buochs is equipped with an Aircraft cavern, also was A2 motorway built so that MirageIIIS using JATO booster rockets could take off from this highway. But this opportunity was never used .[2] The air base is, at both end of the runway, equipped with retractable Arresting gear devices (used by the F/A-18 and in case of a problem by the F-5).
The airfield was active until 2003; used for fighter jets of the Swiss Air Force. It was the home of militia Squadron 8 with
The airfield is also used for different occasions, the trade show "Iheimisch» Nidwaldner the trader was held there in May 2012
See also
External links
- Website of the Airport
- Sleeping Base Buochs Website of the Swiss Air Force about Buochs
- Flugplatz Buochs private Webseite about Airport Buochs
References
- ^ Flugplatz Buochs: Militär könnte sich zurück ziehen Artikel der Neuen Nidwaldner Zeitung vom 28. Juli 2012
- ISBN 978-3-9524239-0-5, S. 230
- ^ Homepage der Gewerbeschau Iheimisch Archived July 15, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Homepage der Luftfahrtmesse Swiss Aero Expo Archived October 19, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Homepage der Modellfluggruppe Nidwalden