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The 5.180.24.3/info/lufttransport" target="_blank">Lufttransport 5.180.24.3/info/staffel" target="_blank">Staffel 5 (LT St 5, French Escadrille Transport Aérien 5 ) is a transport squadron of the Swiss Air Force. The homebase of the 5.180.24.3/info/lufttransport" target="_blank">Lufttransport 5.180.24.3/info/staffel" target="_blank">Staffel 5 is the Payerne Air Base.
The 5.180.24.3/info/lufttransport" target="_blank">Lufttransport 5.180.24.3/info/staffel" target="_blank">Staffel 5 is part of the Lufttransportgeschwader 1 together with the 5.180.24.3/info/lufttransport" target="_blank">Lufttransport 5.180.24.3/info/staffel" target="_blank">Staffel 1 (French Escadrille Transport Aérien «La UNE» ). The coat of arms of the 5.180.24.3/info/lufttransport" target="_blank">Lufttransport 5.180.24.3/info/staffel" target="_blank">Staffel 1 is a side view of a green grasshopper in front of a white circular ground, which shows the white number 5 on one of its wings.
The camouflage version of the coat of arms shows the same image, but in dark green shades.
History
The air transport unit and company 5 was founded in March 1962 as a light-transport unit 5 under the command of Hauptmann (Captain)Fritz Kolb. The 5.180.24.3/info/lufttransport" target="_blank">Lufttransport 5.180.24.3/info/staffel" target="_blank">Staffel 5 used Piper Super Cub, Hiller UH-12 B, Alouette II and Dornier Do 27 on the military airfield Reichenbach and on the Military airfield Frutigen. In 1964, the Pilatus P-2 was introduced by the 5.180.24.3/info/lufttransport" target="_blank">Lufttransport 5.180.24.3/info/staffel" target="_blank">Staffel 5 and from 1965 on the military airfield Kägiswil became the wartime home base of the unit. At the end of the 1960s, the Pilatus PC-6 and the Junkers Ju 52 were used by the 5.180.24.3/info/lufttransport" target="_blank">Lufttransport 5.180.24.3/info/staffel" target="_blank">Staffel 5. From 1974 to 2010 the Alouette III was used by the 5.180.24.3/info/lufttransport" target="_blank">Lufttransport 5.180.24.3/info/staffel" target="_blank">Staffel 5. As of 1992, the 5.180.24.3/info/lufttransport" target="_blank">Lufttransport 5.180.24.3/info/staffel" target="_blank">Staffel 5 operated the AS332M1 Super Puma. These were stationed at the Interlaken Air Base airport until 2003. The AS532UL Cougar was also entering service at the 5.180.24.3/info/lufttransport" target="_blank">Lufttransport 5.180.24.3/info/staffel" target="_blank">Staffel 5 and in 2010 followed the Eurocopter EC635.
The task of the 5.180.24.3/info/lufttransport" target="_blank">Lufttransport 5.180.24.3/info/staffel" target="_blank">Staffel 5 is the air transport with helicopters throughout Switzerland.
Aircraft
Piper PA-18 Super Cub
Dornier Do 27
Hiller UH-12B
Alouette II
Alouette III
Pilatus P-2
Pilatus PC-6
Junkers Ju 52
AS332M1 Super Puma
AS532UL Cougar
Eurocopter EC635
References
Official VBS page about the 5.180.24.3/info/lufttransport" target="_blank">Lufttransport 5.180.24.3/info/staffel" target="_blank">Staffel 5
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- Lufttransport Staffel 5
- Lufttransport Staffel 1
- Swiss Air Force aircraft squadrons
- Structure of the Swiss Armed Forces
- Militär-Helikopter-Rettungsdienst
- Dübendorf Air Base
- Junkers Ju 52
- Structure of the Austrian Armed Forces
- Celle Air Base
