As coat of arms, the Fliegerstaffel 8 carries as a red sawfish, floating through the lower opening of a black number 8 on a white ground.

In the fall of 1956, Fl St 8 completed a training course at Meiringen, flying their first missions out of Aircraft caverns.

During the retraining phase on the Hawker Hunter in Emmen and the following services, Oblt Paul Habegger shot an 8-mm film named "Bambini Vandalo".

During the planned dismantling of the Hunter fleet, two Tiger squadrons should be re-trained for ground combat in a second role.

With the procurement of modern, complex combat aircraft, it is foreseeable that they can't be used effectively by non-professional militia pilots.