Spitfire 5553, AX-K of the SAAF Museum, a sad day
Swartkop Airshow, 15 April 2000, aviation fans abound and two Supermarine Spitfires are going through their paces in line astern formation.
SAAF Museum
Spitfire restoration hangar commences
On Saturday 26th February 2022, the erection of the new Spitfire Restoration workshop and hangar commenced.
SAAF aircraft sketches donated by bazil Kriel
Bazil Kriel is currently the vice-chairman of the Pretoria Branch of the Friends and has been generous in his support of the project on many occasions, with donations of items which, in many cases, he has created himself. Once again, he has come up trumps, by drawing and donating three pictures of SAAF aircraft for …
Airfix model of ‘dogfight duo’ donated to spitfire project
Don Sutton is a keen modeller and project team member now living in Australia. Before he left, he built what Airfix used to refer to as a “Dogfight Duo”, which depicts a World War Two conflict between Sailor Malan’s Spitfire and a Messerschmidt Bf 109. Don kindly donated his models to our Project! Thank you, …
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Lt Gen. Denis Earp To be Patron of the Spitfire Restoration Project
Lt Gen. Denis Earp to be Patron of the Spitfire Restoration Project
Vice Air Marshall Johnnie Johnson Visits the SAAF Museum
Johnnie Johnson, leading World War II Fighter Ace, a veteran of the Korean War, visited the SAAF Museum at AFB Swartkop in February 1997. Johnnie Johnson attained the position of Air Vice Marshall before retiring from the Royal Air Force. As a pilot during WWII, he attained a confirmed 38 ‘kills’.