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Swiss Air Force Base Meiringen - Unterbach May 2026

Twenty years on from my last series of annual visits, Meiringen is still a beautiful air base. The F-5Es are still about and the F/A-18 Hornets occupy the caverns.

Left to right: F-5F (J-3210) departing in the afternoon sun.

Left to right: Visiting Pilatus PC-6 Turbo Porter (V-614) departing.

Left to right: F/A-18C Hornet (J-5006) returns.

Left to right: Pilatus PC-21 (A-104) is an advanced turboprop military trainer aircraft flown by the Swiss Air Force.

Left to right: F/A-18C Hornet (J-5006) on its way out from the cavern area crossing the public road.