MiGFlug

MiGFlug GmbH is a Zurich[1], Switzerland-based[2][3] Aviation and Space Adventure company specialized in Fighter Jet Flights.[4] The company was founded in 2004 by current CEO Philipp Schaer[5][6][7] and Flavio Kaufmann. As of 2015, offerings include jet trainer flights, supersonic flights, Edge of Space flights, zero gravity flights and suborbital space flights.[8][9]

MiGFlug GmbH
Private
IndustryMilitary Tourism, Spaceflight
Founded2004
HeadquartersSwitzerland
Websitehttp://www.migflug.com/en

Company

Philipp Schaer is the current CEO of MiGFlug.[10] He co-founded the company in 2004,[11] with another student at the University of Zurich.[12] The company is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland,[13] and registered in the commercial register of Lucerne.[14] MiGFlug's main business is offering flights in military fighter jets for civilians, including supersonic flights.[15] It started with jet flights from Ramenskoye Airport, Russia.[16] MiGFlug has been shown on Lonely Planet’s Year of Adventures with Ben Fogle,[17][18][19] broadcast on BBC, and is regularly on Top of Bucket Lists.[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27] A number of notable passengers have flown in one of the company's fighter jets, including Anthony Bourdain,[28] Zoltán Báthory,[29] Joel Kinnaman, Miss India 2010 Manasvi Mamgai,[30] TyDi,[31] Josh Cartu,[32][33][34][35][36][37] "Evil" Jared Hasselhoff,[38] Jake Paul,[39] Klaas Heufer-Umlauf, Joko Winterscheidt and Pauline Nordin.[40]

Several of MiGFlug's jets and pilots have appeared in movies, in TV and in commercial productions. For example, an L-39 appeared in the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies in the opening scene with 007 hijacking the plane and flying away seconds before the bazaar is destroyed.[41] MiGFlug has produced several Galileo episodes for ProSieben, as well as a zero gravity flight for Joko gegen Klaas.[42] Porsche,[43] Mercedes-Benz[44] Diesel, OnePlus,[45] IGN[46] and Swiss diary company Emmi AG[47] produced advertisements or advertorials with MiGFlug.

MiGFlug's subsidiary GoAviator specializes in vintage flights, for example in Warbirds and biplanes.[48][49] MiGFlug also has a popular blog, covering aviation topics, with a focus on military aviation[50].

Since 2015, MiGFlug has offered formation jet flights with up to six passengers flying at the same time in close formation in an L-39.[51]

In some locations MiGFlug also offers flights to customers in wheelchairs, who enter the L-39 jets with the help of a forklift.[52]

Aircraft flown
Aircraft Origin Type Variant Notes Flight Location
Combat Aircraft
Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum[53][54][55][56] Soviet Union Multirole combat aircraft, Air Superiority Fighter MiG-29 UB Only supersonic flight currently available for Civilians.[57] Edge of Space flight up to 20 km altitude[58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83] Russia
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 (NATO reporting

name "Midget")[84][85][86]

 Soviet Union Jet Fighter aircraft S-102 Built in Czech Republic in license as S-102 by Aero Vodochody Czech Republic

Canada[87]

Hawker Hunter[88][89][90] United Kingdom Fighter-bomber Hunter Mk-58 Operated by Swiss Air Force as long as 1994 Switzerland
De Havilland Vampire United Kingdom Jet Fighter aircraft Vampire DH-115 Mk 55 Operated by Swiss Air Force as long as 1990 Switzerland

United Kingdom

Canada

BAC Strikemaster United Kingdom Attack aircraft United Kingdom
Military Jet Trainer
Aero L-39 Albatros[91][92][93][94] Czech Republic Military trainer aircraft, Light ground attack L-39C Highest production number of any military jet trainers worldwide with 2900 units produced. The L-39 Albatros was the first second-generation jet trainer in production and the first trainer aircraft with a turbofan powerplant. United States[95][96]

Czech Republic[97]

Germany[98][99][100][101]

Latvia[102]

France[103]

Switzerland[104][105][106]


Italy[107])

(earlier in Spain)[108])

Aero L-29 Delfin Czech Republic Military trainer aircraft, Light attack Slovakia
Aermacchi MB-326[109]) Italy Advanced trainer/Light attack The MB-326 did not see service with the Italian Frecce Tricolori aerobatic team, who kept the Fiat G.91. They were later replaced by the MB-326 successor, the MB-339 Italy
BAC Jet Provost United Kingdom Military trainer aircraft Italy

United Kingdom

Lockheed T-33 United States Military trainer aircraft Canada

Aircraft flown in the past

Jets offered from Ramenskoye Airbase near Moscow in Russia from 2004-2006 included MiG-23, MiG-25, MiG-29 and the Su-27.[110] Through a cooperation with Thunder City in Cape Town, South Africa, MiGFlug offered English Electric Lightning and Blackburn Buccaneer flights.[111] MiGFlug also organized T-38 supersonic flights in the US for Galileo/ProSieben.[112]

Spacecraft and zero gravity

Weightless flight offers include the Ilyushin Il-76 from Star City (Zvyozdny gorodok)[113][114] near Moscow and a Boeing 727 in the United States, through a cooperation agreement with the Zero Gravity Corporation.[115][116] MiGFlug also had an arrangement to offer future sub-orbital spaceflights in the XCOR Lynx;[117] Xcor filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2017.[118]

Planned future flights

According to monthly German aerobatic magazine FliegerRevue, MiGFlug plans to offer stratosphere flights, or so-called "Edge of Space" flights, in both MiG-21 and MiG-23 aircraft to replace the MiG-29, which has no longer been available since late 2017.[119]

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