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MiGFlug GmbH
Company typePrivate
IndustryMilitary Tourism, Spaceflight
Founded2004
HeadquartersSwitzerland
Websitehttps://migflug.com

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 included jet trainer flights, supersonic flights, edge of space flights, zero gravity flights and suborbital space flights.[8][9]

Company

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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] They initially got the idea during a trip to Moscow, when bumping into a fighter pilot and convincing him to take them for a ride.[13] A few days later that pilot smuggled them into a Russian airbase and took off with both of them. Later that year, the pair found a legal way to offer those flights in Russia using aircraft such as a Sukhoi Su-30 and the then-fastest fighter jet ever built, the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25.[14] The company is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland,[15] and registered in the commercial register of Lucerne.[16] MiGFlug's main business is offering flights in military fighter jets for civilians, including supersonic flights.[17] It started with jet flights from Ramenskoye Airport, Russia.[18] MiGFlug has been shown on Lonely Planet's Year of Adventures with Ben Fogle,[19][20][21] and broadcast on BBC. A number of notable passengers have flown in one of the company's fighter jets, including Anthony Bourdain,[22] Zoltán Báthory,[23] Joel Kinnaman, Miss India 2010 Manasvi Mamgai,[24] TyDi,[25] Josh Cartu,[26][27][28][29][30][31] "Evil" Jared Hasselhoff,[32] Alan Walker, Jake Paul,[33] Klaas Heufer-Umlauf, Joko Winterscheidt, Jan Marsalek, Roberto Chevalier[34][35] and Pauline Nordin.[36]

Several of MiGFlug's jets and pilots have appeared in movies, TV, and advertisements. For example, an L-39 appeared in the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies in the opening scene.[37] MiGFlug has produced several Galileo episodes for ProSieben, as well as a zero gravity flight for Joko gegen Klaas.[38] Porsche,[39] Mercedes-Benz[40] Diesel, OnePlus,[41] IGN,[42] and Swiss diary company Emmi AG[43] produced advertisements or advertorials with MiGFlug.

MiGFlug's subsidiary GoAviator specializes in vintage flights, for example in warbirds and biplanes.[44][45] MiGFlug also has a popular blog, covering aviation topics, with a focus on military aviation.[46]

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.[47]

In some locations MiGFlug also offers flights to customers in wheelchairs, who enter the L-39 jets with the help of a forklift.[48]

Aircraft flown

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Aircraft Origin Type Variant Notes Flight Location
Combat Aircraft
Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum[49][50][51][52][53][54] Soviet Union Multirole combat aircraft, air superiority fighter MiG-29 UB Only supersonic flight currently available for civilians.[55] Edge of space flight up to 20 km (12 mi).[56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63] MiG-29 flights temporarily stopped in 2017 and haven't resumed since. Russia
Lockheed F-104 Starfighter[64] United States Interceptor aircraft, fighter-bomber aircraft Lockheed F-104 Starfighter Currently only for qualified pilots (with Private pilot licence or Commercial pilot licence). United States
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 (NATO reporting

name "Midget")[65][66][67][68][69]

Soviet Union Jet fighter aircraft S-102 Built in Czech Republic in license as S-102 by Aero Vodochody Czech Republic[70]

Canada[71]

Hawker Hunter[72][73][74][75][76] United Kingdom Fighter-bomber Hunter Mk-58 Operated by Swiss Air Force as long as 1994 Switzerland[77]
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[citation needed] United Kingdom Attack aircraft United Kingdom
Military Jet Trainer
Aero L-39 Albatros[78][79][80][81] 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[82][83][84]

Czech Republic[85]

Germany[86][87][88][89]

Latvia[90]

France[91]

Switzerland[92][93][94][95]

Italy[96]

(earlier in Spain)[97]

Aero L-29 Delfin Czech Republic Military trainer aircraft, light attack Slovakia[98]
SIAI-Marchetti S.211[99][100] Italy Military trainer aircraft, light attack Germany[101]
Aermacchi MB-326[102] 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[103] United Kingdom Military trainer aircraft Italy

United Kingdom

Lockheed T-33 United States Military trainer aircraft Canada

Aircraft flown in the past

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Jets offered from Ramenskoye Airbase near Moscow in Russia from 2004-2006 included MiG-23, MiG-25, MiG-29 and the Su-27.[104] Through a cooperation with Thunder City in Cape Town, South Africa, MiGFlug offered English Electric Lightning and Blackburn Buccaneer flights.[105] MiGFlug also organized T-38 supersonic flights in the US for Galileo/ProSieben.[106] From 2006-2009, MiGflug offered Mikoyan MiG-31 Foxhound flights and from 2006-2017 Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum flights from Sokol Airbase, in Nizhny Novgorod.

Spacecraft and zero gravity

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Weightless flight offers include the Ilyushin Il-76 from Star City (Zvyozdny gorodok)[107][108][109] near Moscow and a Boeing 727 in the United States, through a cooperation agreement with the Zero Gravity Corporation.[110][111] MiGFlug also had an arrangement to offer future sub-orbital spaceflights in the XCOR Lynx;[112] Xcor filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2017.[113]

Planned future flights

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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.[114]

Cancellation of Russian flight offers due to War in Ukraine

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After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, MiGFlug announced to stop all remaining offers in Russia and spend any profits made with Russian flights to support Ukraine.[115][116]

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