Serves Sion, Switzerland Elevation AMSL 483 m / 1,585 ft 07R/25L 6,562 Code SIR Phone +41 27 329 06 00 | Location Sion Website sionairport.ch 6,562 2,000 Elevation 482 m | |
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Address Route de l'Aéroport, 1950 Sion, Switzerland Similar Douanes Suisses Aéroport, Restaurant Aéroport, Anzère Tourisme, Air‑Glacie SA, Société des Téléphéri Profiles | ||
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Sion Airport (IATA: SIR, ICAO: LSGS) (Military: LSMS) is the airport of the city of Sion, Switzerland and is located 2.5 km southwest of Sion city in the Rhone Valley. The airport opened in 1935.
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Approach and landing into sion airport
Airlines and destinations
The following airlines offer regular scheduled and charter flights at Sion Airport:
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. 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).
Because of the redimension of the Swiss Air Force it is planned that the Air Force will leave Sion after 2017 and Sion will be used by civil aviation only, acting only as alternate airfield for the Air Force.