For 54 years, K\u00e4giswil Airfield has been operating under an indefinite operating permit as a civilian airfield for pilot training and recreational flying\u2014now the Federal Office of Civil Aviation wants to put an end to this, and it has done so in no uncertain terms: \u00abThe FOCA is denying the Obwalden Airfield Cooperative\u2019s request to convert the former K\u00e4giswil military airfield into a civilian airfield.\u00bb<\/p>\n
To date, armasuisse has made the airfield available to the FGOW through a building lease agreement. This fixed-term agreement remains in effect until the end of September 2026. According to the FOCA\u2019s press release, armasuisse will now work with FGOW to arrange for the orderly return of the airfield, as provided for in the current building lease agreement by January 2027.<\/p>\n
The Swiss Aero Club, which has supported the Obwalden Airfield Cooperative (FGOW) for years in its fight to keep the civil airfield open, is disappointed by the federal authorities\u2019 conduct. In a statement, the FGOW<\/a> announced that it would appeal the FOCA's decision to the Federal Administrative Court. There is also surprise at the Aero-Club of Central Switzerland,<\/a> who has held an operating license for the K\u00e4giswil airfield since 1972.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For 54 years, the K\u00e4giswil Airfield has operated under an indefinite operating permit as a civil airfield for pilot training and<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aktuell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aeroclub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aeroclub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aeroclub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aeroclub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aeroclub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27648"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/aeroclub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27662,"href":"https:\/\/aeroclub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27648\/revisions\/27662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aeroclub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aeroclub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aeroclub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aeroclub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}