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Sion Airport

Aéroport de Sion
  • IATA: SIR
  • ICAO: LSGS/LSMS
    SIR is located in Switzerland
    SIR
    SIR
    Location of airport in Switzerland
Summary
ServesSion, Switzerland
LocationSion
Elevation AMSL483 m / 1,585 ft
Coordinates46°13′10.53″N 7°19′36.35″E / 46.2195917°N 7.3267639°E / 46.2195917; 7.3267639
Websitesionairport.ch
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
07R/25L 6,562 2,000 Asphalt
07L/25R 1,820 555 Grass

Sion Airport (IATA: SIR, ICAO: LSGS) (Mil: LSMS) is the airport of the city of Sion, Switzerland.[1] and is located 2.5 km southwest of Sion city in the Rhone Valley[2]

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines offer regular scheduled and charter flights at Sion Airport:[3]

AirlinesDestinations
Air Glaciers Seasonal: Calvi, Elba, Figari, La Môle/Saint-Tropez[4]
Etihad Regional
operated by Darwin Airline 		Seasonal: Lugano[5]
Seasonal charter: Palma de Mallorca[6]

The nearest larger international airport is Geneva Airport, approx. 110 kilometres (68 mi) to the west.

Military usage

The Swiss Air Force uses Sion as one of their four jetfighter air bases, the others being Payerne, Meiringen and Emmen. It is known as Flugplatzkommando 14 Sion. In addition to the prop-types Pilatus PC-6, Pilatus PC-7, Pilatus PC-9 and Pilatus PC-21 as well as helicopters it uses Sion intensively with the fighter jets F/A- 18 and F-5 Tiger. It is the home base of the militia pilot sqd., Sqd.19 Swans with F-5E and Sqd.16 Dragons with F-5F. Sion Airport is, at both end of the runway, equipped with retractable arresting gear devices (used by the F/A-18 and in case of a problem by the F-5).

Because of the redimension of the Swiss Air Force it is planned that the Air Force will leave Sion after 2016 and Sion will be used by civil aviation only.

See also

References

  1. ^ Priceline
  2. ^ Piste25
  3. ^ http://www.sionairport.ch/infos/schedules-and-airlines.xhtml
  4. ^ http://www.sionairport.ch/infos/schedules-and-airlines.xhtml
  5. ^ http://airlineroute.net/2016/01/14/f7-sir-may16/
  6. ^ http://www.lenouvelliste.ch/articles/valais/canton/buchard-voyages-signe-un-accord-avec-une-compagnie-aerienne-472597

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Swiss Air Force

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