Established 26 October 1973 Phone +27 41 505 1295 | Type Aviation museum | |
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Location AFB Swartkop, Centurion
AFB Ysterplaat, Cape Town
Port Elizabeth Airport South Africa Address Forest Hill Dr, Southdene, Port Elizabeth, 6000, South Africa Hours Closed today MondayClosedTuesday8AM–3PMWednesday8AM–3PMThursday8AM–3PMFridayClosedSaturday9AM–3PMSunday10AM–4PMSuggest an edit Similar Bayworld, Nelson Mandela Metropolit, Horse Memorial, South End Museum, Kragga Kamma Game Park Profiles | ||
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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.
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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 in flying condition
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.
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.
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.