Flieger-Flab-Museum

Flieger-Flab-Museum
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Established	1978
Location	Dübendorf

FFA P-16 Mk.III in Fliegermuseum Dübendorf

Hawker Hunter MK.58

The Flieger-Flab-Museum (English: Swiss Air Force Museum) is located in the Canton of Zurich in Dübendorf on the grounds of the military airport. The collection was founded in 1972 by the Office for Military Airfields and dedicated to the history of Swiss military aviation and air defense.

In the museum forty airplanes and helicopters are displayed, with the collection divided into distinct eras: pioneers and World War I, The 1930s, World War II and the Post-war period, the beginning of the jet age, the development of jet fighters, the Cold War and arms reduction.

History

In the years 1972-1978, the collection was turned over to the state by the Swiss Federal Office for military airfields. In 1978 for the first time the public were able to contribute to the issue. The collection grew steadily over the next few years. Finally, in 1979, the Friends of the Museum of the Swiss air force (VFMF) was formed, initiated by Hans Giger, the Director of the Federal Office for military airfields.

During the presidency of former Federal Councillor Rudolf Heinrich Friedrich between 1985–88, the club built a new exhibition hall with the help of donations. This extension, a concrete shell structure designed by engineer Heinz Isler, was inaugurated in 1988 by former Federal Councillor Arnold Koller. A year earlier, the federal government took over the financial responsibility for the operation of the museum. Ten years later, in 1997, the VFMF and the Association of Friends of flab (VF-flab) merged with the Friends of the Swiss Air Force AFL. In 2002, a new hall was opened.

Exhibits

Aircraft

Launcher with 2 Oerlikon RSE Kriens Lenkwaffen at Fliegermuseum Dübendorf

Swiss Air Force C-3603-1

RSA Lenkwaffe in launcher

• ADS-95 Ranger
• Alouette II
• Alouette III
• Bücker Bü 131
• Dassault Mirage IIIS
• Dassault Mirage IIIRS
• De Havilland Vampire DH.100 and DH-115
• de Havilland Venom
• EFW N-20
• EKW C-36 C-3603
• FFA P-16
• Fieseler Fi 156 Storch
• Hawker Hunter F.Mk.58 and T.Mk.68
• Hiller UH-12B
• Messerschmitt Bf 109
• Messerschmitt Bf 108-B Taifun
• Morane-Saulnier D-3800
• North American P-51D Mustang
• Northrop F-5 erected in front of museum in Patrouille Suisse paint
• Pilatus P-2
• Pilatus P-3
• Pilatus PC-7 Turbo trainer
• Rockwell Grand Commander 680FL

Simulators

• Boeing 737
• Dassault Mirage IIIS
• Pilatus P-3

Other exhibits

• Bristol BL-64 Bloodhound
• Fire control radar Mark VII
• FLORIDA Airspace monitoring and management system
• Flt Gt63 /69' Super Fledermaus
• LGR-1 Radar
• Oerlikon 35 mm twin cannon
• Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
• RSA Missile
• RSE Kriens (Missile)
• Saurer M6 radio truck
• SRF Airspace monitoring and management system
• Target allocation radar TPS-1E

External links

• Official website
• Tailnumbers of all aircraft of the Swiss Air Force (German only)