Fliegerstaffel 5
The squadron 5 was in the resolution of 1994 Hawker Hunter fighter aircraft equipped squadron of the Swiss Air Force with professional military pilots for surveillance squadron belonged. Their home base was the Interlaken military airfield . Fliegerstaffel 5 wore a black lynx with yellow eyes as its coat of arms , which stretched out its right paw with claws. Red flames came out of his mouth and faded into the background. The badge was round and had a white base. Under the lynx was written 5éme escadrille in black . The badge was later changed to a shield-shaped coat of arms with a stylized lynx head, which was often mistaken for a dragon's head.
history
Fliegerkompanie 5 was founded in 1925 . Only the Häfeli DH-5 and C-35 aircraft types were used. In 1940 these were replaced by the new Morane D-3800 . In 1945, during a reorganization, the flying personnel of Fliegerkompanie 5 was reallocated to the newly created Fliegerstaffel 5. From 1951 to 1959, Fliegerstaffel 5 used the De Havilland DH.100 Vampire jet aircraft. In 1959 he was retrained to the Hawker Hunter at the Raron military airfield . Then Fliegerstaffel 5 was based in Interlaken until the Hawker Hunter was decommissioned in 1994 and was then dissolved. The Interlaken military airfield continued to exist for some time as a helicopter base and competence center for war repairs until it was also handed over to a civilian operator.
Probably the most famous member of Fliegerstaffel 5 was the Swiss astronaut Claude Nicollier , who piloted the Hunter until the squadron was disbanded in 1994.
Planes
supporting documents
- Hermann Keist FlSt5
- Christophe Donnet: Hunter fascination. Schück, Adliswil 1995, ISBN 3-9520906-0-3
