Aircraft Photo of 710 | Cessna 185A Skywagon | South Africa - Air Force | AirHistory.net #382695
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:710
Aircraft Original Type:Cessna 185 Skywagon
Aircraft Generic Type:Cessna 185 Skywagon (U-17)
Aircraft Version:Cessna 185A Skywagon
C/n (msn):185-0312
Operator Titles:South Africa - Air Force
Location
Location:In Flight
Country:South Africa
 
Photo Date:29 May 1987
Photo from:Kjell O Granlund Collection
Photo ID: 382695
Photo Comment

This is actually a SAAF formation. The Cessna served with the light aircraft squadrons of the SAAF. The Chipmunk was delivered to the RAF's Rhodesian Air Training Group at RAF Heany outside Bulawayo in then Southern Rhodesia in 1951. The following year it suffered a mishap and was stored before sold to South Africa where it was restored and flown by SAAF crews under the auspices of the SAAF Museum. Here seen en-route to a fly-in at Margate, in the then Natal. Photographer unknown

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