of South Africa

c/n CCF4-498

The North American Harvard in South Africa


Individual Aircraft History


C/N CCF4-498
 


ZU-SAF

 

 



CCF4-498 ZU-SAF Dewald Hoffmann 1

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Photograph: Dewald Hoffmann


CCF4-498 ZU-SAF Dewald Hoffmann 2



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ZU-SAF

Photograph: Dewald Hoffmann

CCF4-498 ZU-SAF Dewald Hoffmann 3

  
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ZU-SAF

Photograph: Dewald Hoffmann

CCF4-498 ZU-SAF Jens Frischmuth 2009 11 14 a

 

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ZU-SAF

Photograph:Jens Frischmuth Hangar Talk Online Aviation Magazine



CCF4-498 ZU-SAF Jens Frischmuth 2009 11 14 b


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ZU-SAF

Photograph:Jens Frischmuth Hangar Talk Online Aviation Magazine

CCF4-498 ZU-SAF Jens Frischmuth 2009 11 14 c


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ZU-SAF

Photograph:Jens Frischmuth Hangar Talk Online Aviation Magazine

CCF4-498 ZU-SAF Theo van der Merwe



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ZU-SAF

Photograph: Theo van der Merwe

CCF4-498 ZU-SAF Irene McCullagh Pilot Dick Henry 1

 

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ZU-SAF


6 March 2010


CCF4-498 ZU-SAF Irene McCullagh Pilot Dick Henry 2

 

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ZU-SAF

Pilot Dick Henry

Stellenbosch Fly-in, 8 May 2010






 


 
c/n CCF4-498 Nice air-to-air of a SAAF Harvard IIA just up from the Air Force Base at Durban, circa 1951*.
                                     This was one of the Harvards destined for the RAF (where it was to have become EX302. but
                                     diverted instead to South Africa as part of the EFTS).  When the SAAF retired it in 1966 it went
                                     to the Portuguese Air Force as 1545.  In 1980 it was sold in the UK and is still current, I believe,
                                     as G-BICE. 
                                     *  Don Sykes in South Africa advises me that the shot was, indeed, early 1951 and the Harvard
                                     was being flown by his father, Capt. Bill Sykes who was OC 5 Squadron, based at Stamford Hill,
                                     Durban at the time.  Capt Sykes went on, a short time later, to join 2 Squadron, SAAF in Korea
                                     on P-51s, attached to the USAF's 18th Fighter-bomber Wing.
 
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