Sion Airport PC-6, Pilatus PC-7, Pilatus PC-9 and Pilatus PC-21 as well as helicopters it uses Sion intensively with the fighter jets F/A-18 and F-5 Tiger. It is the home base of the militia pilot unit Fliegerstaffel 19 Swans with F-5E. Sion Airport is, at both ends of the runway, equipped with retractable arresting gear devices (used by the F/A-18 and in case of a problem by the F-5). Because of the redimension of the Swiss Air Force it is planned that the Air Force will leave Sion after 2017 and Sion will be used by civil aviation only, acting only as
Romano Sion suffered relegation from La Liga and he played a further three seasons with them in Segunda División, being involved in several spats with elusive chairman José María Caneda. In January 2001, Sion signed with Portugal's Vitória de Guimarães, being sparingly played during his one-and-a-half season spell. For the 2002–03 campaign he joined another club in the country, Rio Ave F.C. in the Segunda Liga; following a very short stint back in Spain with Universidad de Las Palmas CF he returned to his homeland, playing out the remainder of his career in amateur football. Romano Sion Romano Sion (born 9 June