Swiss Air Force aircraft squadrons

In the Swiss Air Force an aircraft is usually not deployed permanently to a given Squadron, especially that of the [milizia] pilots who spend just a few weeks a year in service. Aircraft are used across several squadrons, even the Squadron leader's aircraft such as the F/A-18C J-5017 from 17 Squadron will be used by used other squadrons. Older aircraft will often be retired from front line service to support squadrons, for example the Hawker Hunter from a fighter-bomber with 5 Squadron to [Zielflugstaffel] 12 as a target tug.

Image	Name	Status	Home base	Aircraft type	History	Notes
	Fliegerstaffel 1 Rokh	Inactive	Dübendorf Air Base	F-5E	Hawker Hunter, DH-100 Vampire, C-3036, Fokker C.V, Häfeli DH-5	Commander of the Patrouille Suisse was Member of FlSt1. The Patrouille Suisse was Created from parts of the FlSt1[1]
	Fliegerstaffel 2	Inactive	Payerne Air Base	F-5E	Hawker Hunter, DH-112 Venom, DH-100 Vampire,AFB Ulrichen, Turtmann	[2]
	Fliegerstaffel 3	Inactive	Sion Airport	Mirage IIIRS	Hawker Hunter, DH-112 Venom Recon vers, D-3800, C-3603, Dewoitine D.27	[3]
	Fliegerstaffel 4	Inactive	Payerne Air Base	Mirage IIIRS	Hawker Hunter, DH-112 Venom, DH-100 Vampire AFB Turtmann, Sankt Stephan	[4]
	Fliegerstaffel 5 Lynx	Interaktiv	Interlaken	Hawker Hunter	DH-100 Vampire, Häfeli DH-5	Swiss Astronaut Claude Nicollier Pilot at this Sqd
	Fliegerstaffel 6 Ducks	active	Payerne Air Base	F-5E		[5][6]
	Fliegerstaffel 7	Inactive	Meiringen air base	Hawker Hunter	DH-112 Venom, DH-100 Vampire, Me109, Fokker C.V,AFB Ambri, Interlaken	[7]
	Fliegerstaffel 8 Destructors	active	Meiringen air base	F-5E	AFBBuochs Airport	[8]
	Fliegerstaffel 9	Inactive		DH-112 Venom	DH-100 Vampire, Me109,D-3801, Dewoitine D.27, Fokker C.V	[9]
	Fliegerstaffel 10	Inactive	Buochs Airport	Dassault Mirage IIIRS	DH-112 Venom recon, DH-100 Vampire, C-3603, P-51 Mustang	all equipped with Photocameras[10][11][12]
	Fliegerstaffel 11 Tigers	active	Meiringen air base	F/A-18	Dübendorf Air Base, F-5E, Hawker Hunter, DH-100 Vampire, D-3801	Member of the NATO Tiger Association,[13] F/A-18C J-5011 Squad Aircraft with special paint[14]
	Zielflugstaffel 12	active	Emmen Air Base	Pilatus PC-9/ F-5E	Hawker Hunter, C-36	[15]
	Fliegerstaffel 13	Inactive	Payerne Air Base	F-5E	DH-112 Venom, D-3800 Morane, Trurtmann AFB, Meiringen air base Ambri	[16]
	Fliegerstaffel 14	active	Locarno	Pilatus PC-7DH-100 VampirePilatus P-3	[17]
	Fliegerstaffel 15	Inactive	Sankt Stephan	Hawker Hunter	DH-112 Venom, DH-100 Vampire, D-3801, Me109, Payerne Air Base	in the last year a Hunter got a "Papyrus" paint this AC is now private used[18]
	Fliegerstaffel 16	active	Sion Airport	F-5F	Mirage IIIS, DH-112 Venom & DH-112 R1, DH-100 Vampire, P-51 Mustang C-3603, C-36, Fokker C.V, Buochs Airport
	Fliegerstaffel 17 Falcons	active	Payerne Air Base	F/A-18	Mirage IIIS, DH-112 Venom, D-3802, C-3603, Häfeli DH-5 Dewoitine D.27 AFB BuochsEmmen, Raron	Sqd Aircraft F/A-18C J-5017 with "Falcons" Paint[19][20]
	Fliegerstaffel 18 Panthers	active	Payerne Air Base	F/A-18		Sqd Aircraft F/A-18C J-5018 with "Phanters" Paint[21]
	Fliegerstaffel 19 Swans	active	Sion Airport	F-5E	Potez 25,Morane D-3800 P-51 Mustang, DH-112 Venom, Hawker Hunter	[22]
	Fliegerstaffel 20	Inactive	Mollis	Hawker Hunter	DH-112 Venom, DH-100 Vampire, P-51 Mustang, D-3801	[23]
	Fliegerstaffel 21	Inactive	Raron	Hawker Hunter	DH-112 Venom, DH-100 Vampire, P-51 Mustang, Dewoitine D.27, Me109,AFB Buochs, Turtmann, Dübendorf	[24][25]
	Fliegerstaffel 24	active	Emmen Air Base	Pilatus PC-9 / F-5F	Hawker Hunter Trainer	Sqd 22 and 23 don't exist
	Lufttransportstaffel 1	active	Payerne Air Base	AS 532UL, AS 332M-1, EC635	Alouette III	[26]
	Lufttransportstaffel 2	Inactive	Dübendorf Air Base	Alouette III	Aérospatiale Alouette II, Piper Super Cub, AFB Triengen	[27]
	Lufttransportstaffel 3	active		AS 532UL, AS 332M-1, EC635		[28]
	Lufttransportstaffel 4	active	Dübendorf Air Base	AS 532UL, AS 332M-1, EC635, B190, DHC-6, B350		Superpuma T-316 with Squadronpainting
	Lufttransportstaffel 5	active	Dübendorf Air Base	AS 532UL, AS 332M-1, EC635	Alouette IIIDornier Do 27Aérospatiale Alouette II
	Lufttransportstaffel 6	active	Alpnach	AS 532UL, AS 332M-1 EC635	[29]
	Lufttransportstaffel 7	active	Emmen Air Base	Pilatus PC-6		[30]
	Lufttransportstaffel 8	active	Alpnach	AS 532UL, AS 332M-1 EC635	Aérospatiale Alouette III	[31] [www.lufttransportstaffel8.ch]

Other aircraft units

Image	Name	Status	Homebase	Aircrafttype	History	Notes
	Berufsfliegerkorps	active	Dübendorf Air Base HQ	all AC types		former UeG Überwachungsgeschwader[32]
	Lufttransportdienst des Bundes	active	Bern Airport	Cessna Citation Excel, DHC-6, B350, B1900, Falcon 900, EC635	Learjet 35, Falcon 50, Eurocopter Dauphin	[33]
	Pilotenschule	active	Emmen Air Base	Pilatus PC-21	F-5F, BAE Hawk, DH-100 VampireT
	Drohnengeschwader 7	active	Emmen Air Base	ADS-95
	GRD Armasuisse	active	Emmen Air Base	Pilatus PC-6 Turbo-Porter, Pilatus PC-12, Diamond DA42 Aurora Centauer	Hawker Hunter, Mirage IIIC, F-5E(J-3001)	Flight test Service
	Patrouille Suisse	active	Emmen Air Base	F-5E	Hawker Hunter AFB Dübendorf	Created from parts of the Fliegerstaffel 1[34]
	PC-7 Team	active	Dübendorf Air Base	Pilatus PC-7		[35]
	MHR Militär Helikopter Rettungsdienst	Inactive			Alouette III	SAR, Today made by the civil Rega (air rescue)
	ADDC	active	Dübendorf Air Base			Air Force HQ, Air Operations Centre, Air Defence& Directions Center
	Parachute Reconnaissance Company 17	active	Locarno	MT-1		Para reccon

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  MirageIIIRS FlSt10

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  Paper Hunter FlSt15

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  Bison Hunter FlSt20

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  FlSt11 F/A-18C J-5011 Tigers

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  FlSt 17 F/A-18C J-5017 Falcons

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  FlSt 18 F/A-18C J-5018 Panthers

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  Superpuma T-316 LT4

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