Aero Club in Switzerland

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De Havilland DH89 Dragon Rapide (HB-APU) of the AeCS 1961 at Zurich Airport

The Aero Club of Switzerland ( AeCS for short ) is the Swiss umbrella organization for aviation and light aviation .

It represents the branches of powered flight and glider flight , model flight , ballooning , parachuting as well as ultralight aircraft , helicopters and experimental aviation . The Aero Club of Switzerland was founded in 1901 and has also been a founding member of the FAI Féderation Aéronautique Internationale since 1905. Its headquarters have been in the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne since 1973, where the AeCs also presents itself in the aerospace hall and is the patronage of takes over the annual Air & Space Days.

The association has a comprehensive, digital data collection of all editions of its publication organ Aero-Revue since the first edition in August 1906 as well as the Tilgenkamp Compendium in 3 volumes from self-published in 1942.

He is entrusted by the federal government with the administrative management, organization and advertising for SPHAIR .

The AeCS is the umbrella organization for general aviation for light aviation and air sports. It has around 24,000 members and is divided into the eight specialist fields of powered flight, glider flight, ballooning, model flight, helicopters, parachuting, microlight and amateur aircraft construction and in 36 regional associations. Light and sport aviation is the real cradle of aviation. Both military and professional pilots receive their basic flying training on light aircraft at the small airfields. As the umbrella organization for general aviation, the AeCS promotes and supports young aviators at all levels and aviation sports. The AeCS is also committed to favorable framework conditions and appropriate infrastructures at airports and in the airspace. As a licensed national aviation sports association designated by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale FAI, the world air sports association, the AeCS has national sports sovereignty and the FAI sports licensing system.

As a sports association, the association is a member of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) and exercises sovereignty over all air sports in Switzerland. He is also a member of Swiss Olympic.

Accident on JULY 2017

On August 4, 2017, as part of the aviation youth camp organized by the Aero Club of Switzerland, a Piper PA-28-181 Archer II ( registration HB-PER ) from the Upper Engadin powered flight group that had started in Samedan crashed around 300 meters north of Diavolezza . Two of the three young passengers and the pilot were killed in the accident, one passenger was recovered seriously injured. An unsuitable and risky flight tactic was found to be the cause of the accident, whereby leaving the control to a person not familiar with flying contributed directly to the accident. The pilot had a private pilot license (PPL (A)), but was not qualified as a flight instructor . Meanwhile, the organizers made a systemic contribution to the accident through their lack of safety awareness.

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  1. ↑ Swiss Security Investigation Board (SUST): Final Report No. 2339 , accessed on January 18, 2019
  2. ↑ Canton police of Graubünden - Pontresina: Crash of a small plane causes three deaths , accessed on August 4, 2017