South African Air Force Museum
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| Established | 26 October 1973 |
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AFB Swartkop, Centurion AFB Ysterplaat, Cape Town Port Elizabeth Airport  South Africa
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| Type | Aviation museum |
| Website | http://www.saafmuseum.co.za/ |
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 the Port Elizabeth airport.
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.
LEO deployment rocket at Swartkop
Replica Patterson Number 2 Biplane at Swartkop
Avro Shackleton at Swartkop
Cheetah C at Swartkop
SAAF North American P-51 Mustang at Swartkop
SAAF Blackburn Buccaneer on static display at Swartkop with munition loadout and its Blue Parrot radar system
SAAF fighter aircraft on static display at Swartkop
Aircraft in flying condition
Aircraft on display
AFB Ysterplaat is home to the last airworthy Avro Shackleton.The Shackleton has been grounded for several years already though, as there are not enough 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.
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