Grenchen Airport

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The airport Grenchen ( ICAO: LSZG ) is a regional airport in Grenchen, Canton of Solothurn.

Flight operations

With 74'491 flight movements he is under diesesm aspect to Zurich, Basel and Geneva, Switzerland, the fourth largest airport - but according to the number of passengers it only comes in seventh place. The aeronautical operations consist mostly on education, business flights, sightseeing flights, Model flights, glider flights and parachute jumps. Are accounted for by training pilots than half of aircraft movements. Swiss Aviation Training Ltd.. (SAT), Training Provider of SWISS, the budding airline pilots trains in Grenchen in visual and instrument flight on Diamond DA40 and DA42 Diamond.

The airport is open year round during the day and has a customs clearance and three hangars. During the winter time the airport is open every Wednesday until 20:00 clock for night flights. The new hangar East with solar panels on the roof was inaugurated in 2009. In the year 2006 2684 international flights were recorded in Grenchen.

History

On 12 April 1931, the military pilot Ernst Just landed the first aircraft on the airfield newly created. Thus, the watch capital of Grenchen was after only two and a half months of preparation, also to the airport location. On May 10, the plane and the grass runway was opened, and already on July 26, 1931 10,000 visitors marveled at the flying demonstrations, among other things, 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 during active military service from September 1939 to September 1940 by the aviator companies 11 and 12

In 1971, the airfield for the first time a federal license as a public airport, which until 2001 and was then extended by another 30 years.

In 2007, Skyguide the local air traffic control. Grenchen is one of 14 locations of the company.