Grenchen airport

Grenchen airport
Characteristics
ICAO code	LSZG
IATA code	ZHI
Coordinates	47 ° 10 '55 "  N , 7 ° 24' 42"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 10 '55 "  N , 7 ° 24' 42"  E
Height above MSL	430 m (1411  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	2 km southeast of Grenchen
Street	A5 motorway
Local transport	Bus line 23 of the BGU
Basic data
opening	1931
operator	Jura-Grenchen AG regional airport
Passengers	62,144 (2014)
Flight movements	79,260 (2014)
Employees	150
Runways
06C / 24C	1000 m × 23 m asphalt
06R / 24L	700 m × 20 m grass
06L / 24R	500 m × 30 m grass
06/24 "Grass South"	700 m × 70 m grass

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Locations of the 11 Swiss regional airports

The airport Grenchen ( ICAO code LSZG, IATA code ZHI) is a regional airport in Grenchen in the canton of Solothurn .

Flight operations

With 74,491 aircraft movements, it is the fourth largest airport in Switzerland after Zurich, Basel and Geneva - but only in seventh place in terms of the number of passengers. The flying activities are mostly limited to training, business flights, sightseeing flights, model flights, glider flights and parachute jumps. Over half of the flight movements are accounted for by the training of pilots. Swiss Aviation Training Ltd. (SAT), the training provider of SWISS, trains prospective airline pilots in visual and instrument flying on Diamond DA40 and Diamond DA42 in Grenchen.

The airport is open all year round and has a customs clearance and three hangars . During the winter time, the airport is open for night flights on Wednesdays until 8:00 p.m. The new Hangar East with solar panels on the roof was inaugurated in 2009. In 2006, Grenchen recorded 2684 international flights.

history

On April 12, 1931, the military pilot Ernst Knab landed the first aircraft on the newly created airfield. The clock metropolis Grenchen became an airfield location after only two and a half months of preparation. The aircraft and the grass runway were inaugurated on May 10th, and 10,000 visitors marveled at the flying demonstrations on July 26th, 1931, including a Dewoitine relay.

Up to and including the Second World War , the airfield was often used by the military, especially for refresher courses and then by the 11 and 12 flying companies during active service from September 1939 to September 1940.

After two attempts to further expand the airfield had failed, the federal councils agreed in March 1970 to subsidize the construction of a hard-surfaced runway. This opened on December 4, 1970.

In 1971 the airfield received its first federal concession as a public airport, which was valid until 2001 and was then extended again for 30 years.

In 2007 Skyguide took over the local air traffic control. Grenchen is one of the company's 14 locations.

literature

• Peter Brotschi: Grenchen regional airport . Solothurn 1991, ISBN 3-85962-097-5 .

Web links

Commons : Flugplatz Grenchen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Grenchen airport

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} FOCA: Annual Report 2014, Annual Report 2014. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 1, 2014 ; Retrieved November 2, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ FOCA: Swiss Civil Aviation 2011, facts and figures. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 26, 2014 ; Retrieved July 10, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Night flight on the Grenchen Airport website, accessed on November 15, 2014
4. ↑ The new Hangar East was inaugurated at Grenchen Airport ( Memento from July 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Airport Blog, July 2009
5. ↑ Regional airport Jura-Grenchen AG: New hangar planned ( Memento from November 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), airport blog, August 5, 2007
6. ↑ Peter Brotschi, Swiss Federal Chancellery (KAV): 75 years Grenchen Airport. (PDF, 59 KB) (No longer available online.) April 12, 2006, archived from the original on October 5, 2007 ; accessed February 2001 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Sandro Fehr: The development of the third dimension. Origin and development of the civil aviation infrastructure in Switzerland, 1919–1990 . Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-0340-1228-7 , p. 233.
8. ↑ Renewal of the operating license for Grenchen Airport ... (PDF, 14 kB) February 14, 2009, accessed on November 15, 2014 .