Mollis military airfield
| Mollis military airfield | |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | LSMF |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 447 m (1467 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 1 km south of Mollis |
| train | Netstal |
| Basic data | |
| operator | Glarnerland Airfield Association |
| Start-and runway | |
| 01/19 | 1800 m × 40 m asphalt |
The Mollis military airfield ( ICAO code LSMF ) is the former airfield of the Swiss Air Force near Mollis in the Swiss canton of Glarus .
It was used by the Swiss Air Force from 1936 with fixed-wing aircraft and from 1958 to 1999 as a jet airfield by de Havilland DH.112 Venom , Hawker Hunter and F-5E and F-5F of Fliegerstaffel 20. After 1999 an air transport unit with superpumas was stationed there, but a few years later Mollis became a sleeping base for helicopters, which means that it is no longer actively used by the military.
The aircraft were housed in Hardened Aircraft Shelters , the command facility for flight operations was in a cavern in the mountain. Nowadays Mollis is no longer a military airfield and is only used for civilian purposes. Heli Linth and the Swiss Air Rescue , which has Rega base 12 there, use the airfield. The prototypes of the copter SH09 were assembled in Mollis and flew their first flights from there.
On April 3, 1923, Walter Mittelholzer landed in Mollis on the first day of flight . His passenger flights were a crowd puller. In 1955 the Mollis flight group received permission from the military to use it. In 2018, the municipality of Glarus Nord bought the Beglingen fortress, the tank trenches and the former Mollis military airfield from Armasuisse .
The Zigermeet air show takes place regularly at the airfield .
Civil airfield hangar
Tiger F-5E crosses a public road
Feldbach aircraft shelter
