South African Air Force Museum

The South African Air Force Museum houses exhibits and restores material related to the history of the South African Air Force. The museum is divided into three locations, AFB Swartkop outside Pretoria, AFB Ysterplaat in Cape Town and at Gqeberha's Chief Dawid Stuurman International Airport.

Exhibits

AFB Swartkop AFB Swartkop is home to the headquarters and largest of the three museum locations, occupying at least five hangars.

It contains a number of Dassault Mirage IIIs, Dassault Mirage F1s, Atlas Cheetahs and various other historical aircraft as well as aviation-related items on display such as ejection seats, uniforms, aircraft engines, aircraft weaponry and a Cheetah C flight simulator.

Aircraft on display Aerospatiale Alouette IIIAIRCRAFT OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN AIR FORCE MUSEUM, www.saaffriends.co.za, Retrieved 2013-10-08. Archived from the original on 12 December 2013 Aerospatiale Puma Helicopters, www.saafmuseum.org, Retrieved 2013-10-08. Archived from the original by The Wayback Machine on 24 December 2013. Aerospatiale Super Frelon Atlas Cheetah E Fighters , www.saafmuseum.org, Retrieved 2013-10-08 Atlas Cheetah C Atlas Impala Mk.I Atlas Impala Mk.II Atlas XH-1 Alpha Avro Shackleton Maritime Patrol , www.saafmuseum.org, Retrieved 2013-10-08 Blackburn Buccaneer Boeing 707 Canadair CL-13 Douglas DC-4 Transport , Transport, Retrieved 2013-10-08 Dassault Mirage III BZ Dassault Mirage III CZ Dassault Mirage III RZ English Electric Canberra T Mk.4 Fieseler Storch Recon & Observation , www.saafmuseum.org, Retrieved 2013-10-08 Lockheed Ventura Bombers , www.saafmuseum.org, Retrieved 2013-10-08 Mirage F1 AZ North American Harvard North American Mustang Patchen Explorer Paterson Biplane Pilatus PC-7 Mk.II Trainers , www.saafmuseum.org, Retrieved 2013-10-08 Westland Wasp Helicopters , www.saafmuseum.org, Retrieved 2013-10-08

AFB Ysterplaat AFB Ysterplaat is home to the last airworthy Avro Shackleton. The Shackleton has been grounded for several years already though, as there is no qualified aircrew and the remaining airframe hours are insufficient to train new crew, apart from the obvious concern of preservation of this historic aircraft.

The Douglas C-47 Dakota here, is the aircraft used in 1952 by the SAAF to help Professor J. L. B. Smith acquire a coelacanth fish specimen from the Comoros Islands.Cotter, Jarrod Flying Fishcart article Fly Past magazine February 2006 pp78-9

Aircraft on display Aerospatiale Alouette III Aerospatiale Super Frelon Atlas Impala Mk.I Avro Shackleton Blackburn Buccaneer Canadair CL-13 Sabre, www.saafmuseum.org.za Dassault Mirage F1 CZ Dassault Mirage III R2Z de Havilland Vampire Douglas C-47 Lockheed Ventura North American Harvard Piaggio P.166 Sikorsky S-55 Westland Wasp

Gqeberha There are few exhibits at the Chief Dawid Stuurman International Airport branch of the museum because of the limited hangar space available.

Static exhibits are housed in the original 42-Air School Air Gunnery Training Centre used during the Joint Air Training Scheme in World War II.

Aircraft on display Aerospatiale Alouette III Aerospatiale Puma Atlas Impala Mk.II Mirage F1 CZ North American Harvard de Havilland Vampire Westland Wasp Helicopters , www.saafmuseum.org, Retrieved 2013-10-08 Supermarine Spitfire 1:1 Scale model built out of wood.

Active restoration is being performed on a number of North American Harvards and there is a project to restore an Airspeed Oxford. One of the more unusual exhibits is a Jorg IV Skimmerfoil ground-effect craft.

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