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The airport of St. Gallen Altenrhein has a long and interesting history. In the strict sense, it goes back to 1926, when Claude Dornier decided to build up his aircraft manufacturing company at this location. For almost 30 years, the airport was contempt with only a 600m long grass runway before the Swiss federation started to use this airport for the Air Force – though only for maintenance. With this decision, a new 1200m long asphalt runway was built. The maintenance of the hunter fleet then required a lengthening of the runway to 1500m which has been completed in 1979. 


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