Flieger Flab Museum

Flieger Flab Museum

Entrance Restaurant
Established	1978 (1978)
Location	Dübendorf, Switzerland
Coordinates	47°23′52″N 8°37′49″E
Type	Aviation museum
Website	Official website

FFA P-16 Mk.III im Flieger Flab Museum 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 Dübendorf Air Base. 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 collection which 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
• BAe Hawk
• Bücker Bü 131
• Dassault Mirage IIIS
• Dassault Mirage IIIRS
• De Havilland Vampire DH.100
• De Havilland Vampire DH.115 Trainer
• de Havilland Venom DH-112
• de Havilland Venom DH-112 reconnaissance version
• N-20.10 Aiguillon
• EKW C-36 C-3603
• FFA P-16
• Fieseler Fi 156 Storch
• Hanriot HD.1
• 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-5E erected in front of museum in Patrouille Suisse paint
• Northrop F-5E in standard gray paint on loan from the Air Force
• Northrop F-5F in standard gray paint on loan from the Air Force
• Pilatus P-2
• Pilatus P-3
• Pilatus PC-7 Turbo trainer
• Pilatus PC-9
• Rockwell Grand Commander 680FL

Simulators

• Boeing 737-222 cockpit section
• Dassault Mirage IIIDS
• Dassault Mirage IIIS
• Pilatus P-3
• F/A-18C
• Boeing 747-338 cockpit section (May 2017)

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)