08-Nov-23 - Swiss Air Force clocks 100,000 flight hours with the Airbus EC635P2+ (H135) helicopter which has been training Switzerland’s military pilots since 2008 #EC135
05-Mar-19 - RUAG Aviation going to upgrade Swiss Air Force Cougar helicopters with the Esterline’s CMC Electronics (CMC) CMA-9000 Flight Management System (FMS) and CMA-5024 GPS Landing System #Cougar
14-Jan-19 - RUAG will upgrade 8 Swiss Air Force AS532UL Cougar through 2022. RUAG already modernized 15 AS332M Super Puma between 2011 and 2014 #Cougar
20-Mar-17 - RUAG Aviation integrated a pilot assistance and helicopter safety solution on the Swiss Air Force EC635 for NATO Degraded Visual Environments (DVE) trials held at Alggialp last February
09-Jun-16 - KFOR forces including Croatian Mi-171, Swiss AS532 and US Army Black Hawks helicopters train together during combat search and rescue exercise Operation Icarus in Kosovo
18-Sep-15 - Croatian, Slovenian, Swiss and U.S. Army flight KFOR crews soared over Kosovo for a multinational, eight-ship helicopter mission, during a large aviation exercise
13-Dec-13 - Thales is pleased to announce that the EC635 helicopter Full Flight Mission Simulator (FFMS) delivered to the Swiss Air Force has achieved JAR FSTD-H* Level D certification issued by Switzerland’s Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA).
22-Dec-09 - Marignane, The Swiss federal procurement, technology and real estate competence centre, armasuisse, handed over the last of 20 EC635 helicopters to the Swiss Air Force. The delivery took place on December 17 at the Alpnach facility of RUAG Aerospace where the Eurocopter-licensed final assembly line for the Swiss EC635s is based. The Swiss Light Transport and Training Helicopter (LTSH) programme is thus completed on time and on quality.
