From 1952 aircraft caverns were built into the rock of the adjacent Mueterschwanderberg Mountain which hosts also an artillery fortress facing Nidwalden.

Beginning in 1958, de Havilland DH-112 Venom jets operated from Alpnach in the case of a war.

The Highway A8 was twice tested as an emergency takeoff runway, using temporary taxiways to the base.

[4] In 1994 the last Air Force jet training courses took place at Alpnach, and on 23 September 1995 the last Tiger F-5E left.

[10] The RUAG Switzerland AG operates on the airfield a location for the maintenance of civil and military helicopter.