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End of an Era: South Africa Bids Farewell to The C-47 Dakota After 81 Years of Service

May 14, 2024 Moreno Aguiari 0

After serving for 81 years in the South African Air Force (SAAF), the C-47 Dakota is bidding farewell as it is being phased out of service. The 35 Squadron, stationed at Air Force Base Ysterplaat, […]

PJ Aviation’s Pristine, Fully-Restored, Combat Veteran CCF Harvard Mk.IV

April 23, 2019 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

PJ Aviation, a provider of aviation brokerage, acquisition, marketing and consulting services, is pleased to announce the availability for purchase of a Canadian-built Harvard Mk.IV. The aircraft has a remarkable service history, and has just completed […]

SAAF to Celebrate 80 Years of Dakota Excellence

December 1, 2015 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE – The South African Air Force’s (SAAF’s) 35 Squadron is to celebrate 80 years of Dakota Excellence by hosting a formal banquet inside their hangar at AFB Ysterplaat on 5 December. The type […]

Lee County Mosquito Control DC-3C-TP

November 30, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 1

As most WarbirdsNews readers are well aware, the Douglas DC-3, along with its more prolific military variants, is an extraordinarily capable aircraft. Adapted from the Douglas Sleeper Transport, or DST, Donald Douglas could never have imagined […]

The ‘Roseland’ Spitfire – Restoration Update

November 26, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 6

On Tuesday, November 11th, Vintage Wings of Canada in Gatineau, Quebec attached the freshly restored starboard wing to the newly arrived fuselage of their Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX. This was a significant step forwards in the […]

Friends of the SAAF Museum Restoring a Blackburn Buccaneer

August 6, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 5

The Friends of the SAAF Museum located at AFB Ysterplaat in Cape Town, South Africa are in the process of restoring a Blackburn Buccaneer. One of sixteen S.50 Buccaneer variants flown by the South African […]

UK Shackleton Preservation Trust Restoring Growler to Flying Condition

June 25, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 7

Serving the Royal Air Force (RAF) from 1951 to 1991 and the South African Air Force (SAAF) from 1957 to 1984, with a design lineage that stretches back to the Avro Lancaster bomber, the Shackleton […]

VWoC Restoration of Former SAAF Spitfire Moving Along

May 5, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

Gatineau, Quebec-based Vintage Wings of Canada, in addition to the restoration of their Hawker Hurricane on which we recently reported, is also well along on their restoration of Supermarine Spitfire IX TE294 which most recently […]

AT-6C Texan Returns to the Sky in France

April 26, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

Emerging after a 15-year restoration, a North American AT-6C Texan has just recently successfully completed its test flights in Angers, France.

Buccaneer Arrives at SAAF Museum

April 8, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 3

The South African Air Force Museum in Ysterplaat, Cape Town, took delivery of Hawker Siddeley S.50 Buccaneer 416 recently. The jet had previously been residing at Cape Town International Airport, though it hadn’t flown since […]

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