Petition "Preservation of Kägiswil airfield" presented to the Federal Council
10,820 signatures were collected - now the petition for the preservation of Kägiswil airfield has been handed over to the Federal Chancellery in Bern.
The online petition with 10,820 signatures calls on the Federal Council to create the framework conditions for the permanent preservation of Kägiswil airfield. Remarkable: 2000 signatures come from Obwalden, 650 of them from the local community itself. This underlines the local roots of the Kägiswil airfield.
This forms an important regional training platform for powered and glider flights in Central Switzerland. The Federal Council's current aviation policy report from 2016 (LUPO) clearly states that the airfields are particularly important for training and further education. The substance of Switzerland's airfield landscape should be preserved. Kägiswil airfield is also listed in the existing Federal Aviation Infrastructure Sectoral Plan (SIL), and the object sheet was adopted by the Federal Council in 2020.
The petition was presented to the Federal Chancellery on May 5 by AeCS Central President and National Councillor Matthias Samuel Jauslin, VSF President Peter Tschümperlin and FGOW President Thomas Geissdörfer.
Also on the Euroairport Basel light aviation is under pressure. Find here sie further information and a corresponding petition.