Lockheed Lodestar South African Air Force (SAAF).zip 2024-07-02

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The Lockheed Lodestars were ordered by SAA just prior to World War II and once hostilities began they were impressed into the SAAF with No 5 Wing at AFS Germiston. The aircraft were used on the South Africa-Egypt “shuttle” from 8 July 1941, most of them operating in a camouflage paint scheme. They also operated on internal routes. Some remained in civil markings for operations to the Belgian Congo and to Portuguese East Africa.

Dakotas replaced the Lodestars from 1943 and by the following...

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