MiGFlug GmbH is a Zurich, Switzerland-based Aviation and Space Adventure company specialized in fighter jet flights. The company was founded in 2004 by current CEO Philipp Schaer and a business partner. , offerings mainly included military jet trainer flights, historic fighter jet flights, and zero gravity flights, while in the past, MiGFlug also offered supersonic flights, edge of space flights, and suborbital space flights.
Company Philipp Schaer is the current CEO of MiGFlug. He co-founded the company in 2004, with another student at the University of Zurich. 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. 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. The company is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. MiGFlug's main business is offering flights in military fighter jets for civilians, including supersonic flights. It started with jet flights from Ramenskoye Airport, Russia. MiGFlug has been shown on Lonely Planet's Year of Adventures with Ben Fogle, and broadcast on BBC. A number of notable passengers have flown in one of the company's fighter jets, including Anthony Bourdain, Zoltán Báthory, Joel Kinnaman, Miss India 2010 Manasvi Mamgai, TyDi, Josh Cartu, "Evil" Jared Hasselhoff, Alan Walker, Jake Paul, Klaas Heufer-Umlauf, Joko Winterscheidt, Jan Marsalek, Roberto Chevalier and Pauline Nordin.
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. MiGFlug has produced several Galileo episodes for ProSieben, as well as a zero gravity flight for Joko gegen Klaas. Porsche, Mercedes-Benz Diesel, OnePlus, IGN, and Swiss diary company Emmi AG produced advertisements or advertorials with MiGFlug.
MiGFlug's subsidiary GoAviator specializes in vintage flights, for example in warbirds and biplanes. MiGFlug also has a blog, covering aviation topics, with a focus on military aviation.
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.
MiGFlug organized flights to customers in wheelchairs, who enter the L-39 jets with the help of a forklift.
Aircraft flown AircraftOriginTypeVariantNotesFlight LocationCombat AircraftMikoyan MiG-21 FishbedSoviet UnionSupersonic jet fighter and interceptor aircraftMiG-21 UMStarted 2025. Only supersonic flight that is currently available for civilians. United StatesMikoyan MiG-29 FulcrumSoviet UnionMultirole combat aircraft, air superiority fighterMiG-29 UBEdge of space flight up to . MiG-29 flights stopped in 2017 and haven't resumed since.RussiaLockheed F-104 StarfighterUnited StatesInterceptor aircraft, fighter-bomber aircraftLockheed F-104 StarfighterCurrently only for qualified pilots (with Private pilot licence or Commercial pilot licence).United StatesMikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 (NATO reporting name "Midget")Soviet UnionJet fighter aircraftS-102Built in Czech Republic in license as S-102 by Aero VodochodyCzech Republic
CanadaHawker HunterUnited KingdomFighter-bomberHunter Mk-58Operated by Swiss Air Force as long as 1994. Hawker Hunter flights stopped in 2022 and haven't resumed since.SwitzerlandDe Havilland VampireUnited KingdomJet fighter aircraftVampire DH-115 Mk 55Operated by Swiss Air Force as long as 1990Switzerland
United Kingdom
CanadaBAC StrikemasterUnited KingdomAttack aircraftUnited KingdomMilitary Jet TrainerAero L-39 AlbatrosCzech RepublicMilitary trainer aircraft, light ground attackL-39CHighest 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 Czech Republic
Germany
Latvia
France
Switzerland
Italy
(earlier in Spain)Aero L-29 DelfinCzech RepublicMilitary trainer aircraft, light attackSlovakiaSIAI-Marchetti S.211ItalyMilitary trainer aircraft, light attackGermanyAermacchi MB-326ItalyAdvanced trainer/light attackThe 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.ItalyBAC Jet ProvostUnited KingdomMilitary trainer aircraftItaly United KingdomLockheed T-33United StatesMilitary trainer aircraftCanada
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. Through a cooperation with Thunder City in Cape Town, South Africa, MiGFlug offered English Electric Lightning and Blackburn Buccaneer flights. MiGFlug also organized T-38 supersonic flights in the US for Galileo/ProSieben. From Sokol Airbase in Nizhny Novgorod, MiGFlug offered Mikoyan MiG-31 Foxhound flights from 2006-2010 and Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum flights from 2006-2017 from Sokol Airbase, in Nizhny Novgorod. In Switzerland, MiGFlug offered Hawker Hunter flights from 2005-2022.
Spacecraft and zero gravity Weightless flight offers include the Ilyushin Il-76 from Star City (Zvyozdny gorodok) near Moscow and a Boeing 727 in the United States, through a cooperation agreement with the Zero Gravity Corporation. MiGFlug also had an arrangement to offer future sub-orbital spaceflights in the XCOR Lynx; Xcor filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2017.
Planned future flights According to monthly German aerobatic magazine FliegerRevue, MiGFlug plans to offer stratosphere flights, or so-called "Edge of Space" flights once again, in both MiG-21 and MiG-23 aircraft to replace the MiG-29, which has no longer been available since late 2017.
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