Flieger-Flab-Museum, Technology museum in Dübendorf, Switzerland.
The Flieger-Flab Museum is an aviation museum in Dübendorf housing more than 40 aircraft and helicopters organized across seven thematic areas. The collection spans from early wooden planes to modern jet fighters, showing how aircraft design and technology changed over many decades.
The museum opened in 1978 after Hans Giger worked with the Swiss Military Department to establish a dedicated space for preserving aircraft. This founding moment marked the start of systematic conservation of Swiss aviation history in a single location.
The collection shows how Switzerland built its air force and the role aircraft played in the country's defense strategy over time. The exhibits reflect what aviation meant to the nation and how it shaped Swiss technological progress.
The museum occupies Hangars 13, 14 and 11 and two later exhibition halls on the grounds of Dübendorf Air Base, so the aircraft are indoors rather than spread across open ground. The 1988 extension is a concrete shell structure by engineer Heinz Isler, and a second hall followed in 2002 on the site of the old First World War hangars.
The P-16 jet prototype handed over on 8 August 1980 is the only surviving example of its type, since the second airframe never reached the Museum of Transport in Lucerne. Retired staff built replicas of historic aircraft, logging between 45,500 and 60,000 working hours; by 1998 the average age of the DH-1 replica team had reached 84.
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