avia.wikisort.org - MuseumThe 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.
Aviation museum in Cape Town, Port Elizabeth Airport South Africa
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.
LEO deployment rocket at Swartkop
Replica Patterson Number 2 Biplane at Swartkop
Cheetah C 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 on display
AFB Ysterplaat
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.[11]
Aircraft on display
Port Elizabeth
There are few exhibits at the Port Elizabeth 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.[13]
Aircraft on display
Active restoration is being performed on a number of North American Harvards and there is a project to restore an Airspeed Oxford.[citation needed]
One of the more unusual exhibits is a Jorg IV Skimmerfoil ground-effect craft.
See also
- South Africa portal
- List of aerospace museums
- Military history of South Africa
- South African Air Force
- South African National Museum of Military History
- South African Naval Museum
- AFB Swartkop
References
- "The history of the SAAF Museum". South African Air Force Museum. Archived from the original on 2003-02-12. Retrieved 2008-08-03.
- AIRCRAFT OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN AIR FORCE MUSEUM, www.saaffriends.co.za, Retrieved 2013-10-08. Archived from the original on 12 December 2013
- Helicopters, www.saafmuseum.org, Retrieved 2013-10-08. Archived from the original by The Wayback Machine on 24 December 2013.
- Fighters Archived 2017-07-24 at the Wayback Machine, www.saafmuseum.org, Retrieved 2013-10-08
- Maritime Patrol Archived 2017-06-24 at the Wayback Machine, www.saafmuseum.org, Retrieved 2013-10-08
- Transport Archived 2017-07-23 at the Wayback Machine, Transport, Retrieved 2013-10-08
- Recon & Observation Archived 2017-07-23 at the Wayback Machine, www.saafmuseum.org, Retrieved 2013-10-08
- Bombers Archived 2017-07-10 at the Wayback Machine, www.saafmuseum.org, Retrieved 2013-10-08
- Trainers Archived 2017-07-23 at the Wayback Machine, www.saafmuseum.org, Retrieved 2013-10-08
- Helicopters Archived 2013-12-24 at the Wayback Machine, www.saafmuseum.org, Retrieved 2013-10-08
- Cotter, Jarrod Flying Fishcart article Fly Past magazine February 2006 pp78-9
- Sabre 377 Restoration, www.saafmuseum.org.za
- "SAAF Museum - Port Elizabeth". SA-Transport. Retrieved 2008-11-23.
- Helicopters Archived 2013-12-24 at the Wayback Machine, www.saafmuseum.org, Retrieved 2013-10-08
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Le South African Air Force Museum est l'institution patrimoniale de la Force aérienne sud-africaine. Fondée en 1973, elle gère trois musées de l'aviation.
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