Sion Airport

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Sion Airport

Aéroport de Sion
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Summary
ServesSion, Switzerland
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
SIR is located in Switzerland
SIR
SIR
Location of airport in Switzerland
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) (Military: 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] The airport opened in 1935.[3]

Airlines and destinations[]

As of October 2020, there are currently no longer any regular scheduled or charter flights at Sion Airport on offer.[4] Previously the airport saw summer services to few leisure destinations in the Mediterranean, such as Calvi, as well as winter services from London for skiing.

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

Statistics[]

25,992 passengers were travelling through Sion Airport in the year 2019.[5]


See source Wikidata query and sources.

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 unit Fliegerstaffel 19 Swans with F-5E. Sion Airport is, at both ends 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).

Due to the redimension of the Swiss Air Force, it was planned that the Air Force would leave Sion after 2017 and Sion would be used by civil aviation only, acting only as alternate airfield for the Air Force.[6]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Priceline Archived 2008-05-04 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Piste25
  3. ^ "About Us". Sion Aeroport. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
  4. ^ "Flights". Sion Aeroport. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  5. ^ "Figures and Maps". Sion Aeroport. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
  6. ^ Martino, Mirko (17 September 2015). "«L'aviation militaire à Sion après 2017? Pas exclu»" (in French). 20Minuten. Retrieved 5 May 2021.

External links[]

Media related to Sion Airport at Wikimedia Commons

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