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The North American Harvard in South Africa
Individual Aircraft History
C/N 88-14716
SAAF 7475
ZU-AYS
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C/N 88-14716
ZU-AYS
Flying Lions Aerobatic Team
Sponsors Academy Brushware and Castrol Aviator (1st colour scheme)
Photograph: Steve Allison Photography www.steve.co.za
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C/N 88-14716
ZU-AYS
Flying Lions Aerobatic Team
Sponsors Academy Brushware and Castrol Aviator (1st colour scheme)
Photograph: Steve Allison Photography www.steve.co.za
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C/N 88-14716
ZU-AYS
Flying Lions Aerobatic Team
Sponsors Academy Brushware and Castrol Aviator (2nd colour scheme)
Douglas DC-4 Skymaster ZS-BMH Lebombo in the background
Photograph: Steve Allison Photography www.steve.co.za
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C/N 88-14716
ZU-AYS
Flying Lions Aerobatic Team
Sponsors Academy Brushware and Castrol Aviator (2nd colour scheme)
Photograph: Stephan Rossouw SR Photography
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C/N 88-14716
ZU-AYS
Flying Lions Aerobatic Team
Sponsors Academy Brushware and Castrol Aviator (2nd colour scheme)
Photograph: Stephan Rossouw SR Photography
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C/N 88-14716
ZU-AYS
Flying Lions Aerobatic Team
Sponsors Academy Brushware and Castrol Aviator (2nd colour scheme)
Photograph: Stephan Rossouw SR Photography
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C/N 88-14716
ZU-AYS
Flying Lions Aerobatic Team
Sponsors Academy Brushware and Castrol Aviator (2nd colour scheme)
Photograph: Stephan Rossouw SR Photography
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C/N 88-14716
ZU-AYS
Flying Lions Aerobatic Team
Sponsors Academy Brushware and Castrol Aviator (2nd colour scheme)
Rand Airport Tower in the background.
The Dakota wing on the right of the picture belongs to ZS-GPL
Photograph: Steve Allison Photography www.steve.co.za
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c/n 88-14716
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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