The Lufttransport Staffel 8 carries as coat of arms an oval badge with two light blue symbols in helicopter shape that strongly remind the side view of the Alouette III flying offset so that the two white rotor circles form an oblique 8 in front of an oval dark blue background.

The camouflage of the coat of arms shows the same picture, but in dark green / light brown colors.

At the beginning of the 1960s the expansion of the helicopter fleet in the Swiss Air Force started.

The Lufttransport Staffel 8, equipped with 15 Alouette III, completed its first retraining course in October until November 1967.

The task of the Lufttransport Staffel 8 is the air transport with helicopters throughout Switzerland.