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SAAF Mirage F1AZ
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7 June 1980 Border War, Operation Sceptic. Capt IC Du Plessis landed his badly damaged Mirage F1AZ at Ruacana. The aircraft was damaged by shrapnel from an SAM Missile fired at the aircraft during the bombing of a target. He barely made it to Ruacana with the assistance of Budgie Burgers who was flying a Telstar Imp and guided him in to Ruacana.…Read More
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SAAF #Mirage F1AZ
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SAAF #Mirage F1AZ climbing out
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SAAF #Mirage F1AZ in ‘Le Spectre’ low-visibility color scheme with a Matra R530 slung underneath
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1 Sqn #Mirage F1AZ was taken from the back seat of a 24 Sqn #Buccaneer whilst flying on a combat sortie over Angola during Ops #Modular in 1987
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Mirage F1AZ No 222 at AFB Ondangwa
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2 SAAF Mirage F1’s low on the deck
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Squadron SAAF was an air force squadron of the South African Air Force and was formed at Air Force Station Swartkop in February 1920, equipped with De Havilland DH.9’s part of the Imperial Gift donation to South Africa by Britain. On 31 August 1939 the squadron was re-designated as 1 Bomber/Fighter Squadron and this was then changed to 11 (Bomber) Squadron in December 1939. The squadron was resurrected in February 1940 by the renumbering of 6 Squadron, equipped with four Hurricane Mk 1’s and six Furies.
1 Squadron saw active service in East Africa in 1940, the Western Desert, Malta, Sicily and ended their war service in Italy in 1945. In 1950 the squadron’s Spitfires were replaced with Vampires, and these in turn were replaced by Sabre Mk6’s in 1956. In 1976 the squadron received Mirage F1AZ attack aircraft and it was disbanded when the F1AZ’s were retired on 25 November 1997.
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