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South African Air Force Museum

South African Air Force Museum
SAAF Museum Crest.png
Established 26 October 1973
Location AFB Swartkop, Centurion
AFB Ysterplaat, Cape Town
Port Elizabeth Airport  South Africa
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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