Silvaire wrote:
Somebody must have operated ultralights recently from some field, somewhere in Liechtenstein?!I don’t think so. Switzerland doesn’t have any ultralights, as the Swiss don’t have such a “class” in their jurisdiction, therefore, both countries don’t have any “UL-strips”. All possible “ultralights” operating out of Switzerland, have to fly under a CS-LSA certification. Bringing ultralights from abroad into Switzerland (and therefore in Liechtenstein too) is only allowed for a limited time and only for non-residents.
dublinpilot wrote:
It appears that all five of the sovereign states without an airport are located within Europe.
Not surprising: It’s actually the list of the 5 smaller sovereign states in the world which are not islands.
Link for the image above here More photos here
Quoting from the link the airfield was on “Bendererstrasse in the municipality of Im Tröxle” and “in 2000 the connecting road Tröxlegass – Rosengartenweg in Schaan was named Bim Flugplatz in memory of the airfield” So somebody is at least aware of its prior existence but it doesn’t look flyable to me 
Somebody must have operated ultralights recently from some field, somewhere in Liechtenstein?! I’ve often ridden small roads north from Landquart to Austria, avoiding buying an annual Swiss motorway sticker for a single short transit… still lots of 300 meter + farm fields north of Schaan.
Well, my idea wasn’t to fly to an airport. But rather to fly to a country without an airport!
Looks like we can rule San Marino out, as it turns out it does already have an airport.
Vatican City would be impossible to organise, even if there was enough room.
Andorra and Monaco are probably too hilly.
But what about Liechtenstein?
Frans wrote:
Liechtenstein did had a grass strip up to somewhere in the sixties, close to the town of Schaan.
I couldn’t find anything about it on Google. Probably not surprising if it was closed decades before the internet started. Does anyone know if it’s location and present condition? I wonder would it still be usable with little preparation?
Imagine for a moment, that we could arrange for the grass to be cut, any rabbit holes or mole hills eliminated and a wind sock put up and could organise a small flyin of suitably capable aircraft?!!
I would think that the first aircraft landing in Liechtenstein in over 50 years might be a news worthy event for the local media. We might get some local press/radio/tv coverage and show GA in a positive light.
But maybe we could do more. Being a small state, we might be able to get access to a very senior politician. Perhaps the minister of transport or even the prime minister. Those attending could bring a token gift from their home country (perhaps a small national symbol or popular food/treat or their national flag) to present to them as a symbol of friendship from their home land.
Such an event, apart from being great fun and showing GA in a positive light, is likely to get reported on by the GA press too and help promote our forum. It might even get some small bit of coverage in the domestic press of the countries of those who made a presentation to the premier of Liechtenstein, if the domestic press were informed about it.
“A flyin in a country without an airport.”
“The first aeroplane to land in Liechtenstein in over 50 years”
Does anyone have any knowledge or any way of finding out about this former strip in Liechtenstein? Is it still a green field? Any way of finding out if it would be useable?
Peter wrote:
We nearly did LECD here. It was cancelled due to bad wx
We should do it as winter fly-in with ski at LaMolina but maybe slope & poudreuse is not at your level ;)
Another thumbs up for La Cerdanya
Puigcerdá is nearby and a bit closer for us in the 100-120 knot club than Sicily.
This is an absolutely wonderful idea. Let’s make it happen :-)
I think Andorra has a runways but it’s in Spain LESU, but we can organise a fly-in to La Cardanya LECD which is beautiful place nearby?
How about same runway in two different countries? load on US/Canada border and 2 in Switzerland (Geneva & Bale, the latter is 3 countries), also, this Oz airport sits in two time zones, they should use UTC for thir PPL logbooks
https://www.goldcoastairport.com.au/
I think we’d all need to get our rotorwing rating first, LOL !
