Current Squadrons

• 2 Squadron
  2 Squadron SAAF
  -Background:2 Squadron is currently the premier squadron in the South African Air Force, and has a long history, having been involved in every single combat action in which the SAAF has taken part...
  
  
• 15 Squadron
  15 Squadron SAAF
  15 Squadron SAAF is a squadron of the South African Air Force. It is currently a transport/utility helicopter squadron.The squadron was formed on 18 September 1939 as a Coastal Command squadron based at Cape Town...
  
  
• 16 Squadron
  16 Squadron SAAF
  16 Squadron SAAF is an attack helicopter squadron of the South African Air Force . It was originally formed in World War II as a maritime patrol squadron, however, over the course of the war it was disbanded and reformed a number of times, operating a number of different types of aircraft...
  
  
• 17 Squadron
  17 Squadron SAAF
  17 Squadron SAAF is a squadron of the South African Air Force. It is currently a transport/utility helicopter squadron.* First formed: 1 September 1939...
  
  
• 19 Squadron
  19 Squadron SAAF
  19 Squadron SAAF is a current squadron of the South African Air Force operating as a transport/utility helicopter squadron. It was formed in 1939 as part of the Air Force airways Wing, flying transport aircraft but was disbanded after a few months. It was re-formed from No. 227 Squadron RAF in...
  
  
• 21 Squadron
  21 Squadron SAAF
  21 Squadron SAAF is a squadron of the South African Air Force. It is currently a VIP transport squadron.* Motto: Onoorwinklik * First formed: 8 May 1941...
  
  
• 22 Squadron
  22 Squadron SAAF
  22 Squadron is a squadron of the South African Air Force. It is currently a maritime helicopter squadron operating Lynx and Oryx helicopters for the South African Navy.-History:...
  
  
• 28 Squadron
  28 Squadron SAAF
  28 Squadron SAAF is a squadron of the South African Air Force. It is currently a medium transport squadron flying Lockheed C-130BZ and F Hercules medium transport aircraft....
  
  
• 35 Squadron
  35 Squadron SAAF
  35 Squadron SAAF is a squadron of the South African Air Force. It is currently a maritime patrol and transport squadron.-History:The squadron was formed on 15 February 1945 when 262 Squadron Royal Air Force, an anti-submarine squadron, operating the Consolidated Catalina, was transferred to the...
  
  
• 41 Squadron
  41 Squadron SAAF
  41 Squadron is a light transport squadron of the South African Air Force. It was formed in 1940 and has served since then, It is currently based at AFB Waterkloof.-World War II:...
  
  
• 44 Squadron
  44 Squadron SAAF
  44 Squadron SAAF is a squadron of the South African Air Force. It is currently a light transport squadron.* First formed: 12 March 1944 . The squadron flew Dakota DC3's as part of No. 216 Group RAF of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces in May 1945* Historic aircraft flown: Avro Anson, Dakota,...
  
  
• 60 Squadron
  60 Squadron SAAF
  60 Squadron SAAF is a squadron of the South African Air Force. It is currently a transport, aerial refuelling and EW/ELINT squadron.* First formed: December 1940...
  
  
• 80 Air Navigation School
  80 Air Navigation School SAAF
  80 Air Navigation School is a unit of the South African Air Force. It is currently an aerial navigation, maritime operations and maritime survival school.* Motto: Peritia Per Scientiam * First formed: 1 August 1946...
  
  
• 85 Combat Flying School
  85 Combat Flying School SAAF
  85 Combat Flying School is a unit of the South African Air Force. It is currently a jet flight-training and combat operations school. The school also has a wartime reserve role, although it has publicly been stated that the school will not be used operationally unless a very urgent need arises.*...
  
  
• 87 Helicopter Flying School
  87 Helicopter Flying School SAAF
  87 Helicopter Flying School is a unit of the South African Air Force. It is currently a helicopter flight training school.* Motto: Docemus * First formed: 1 January 1973...
  
  
• Central Flying School
  Central Flying School SAAF
  The Central Flying School is a flight school of the South African Air Force. It is currently an ab initio flight training school. The unit was formed as the central point of flying training after closure of all Air Force flying schools in South Africa...
  
  
• Test Flight and Development Centre
  Test Flight and Development Centre SAAF
  The Test Flight and Development Centre is a unit of the South African Air Force. It is currently a test flight and evaluation centre.-History:...
  
  

Reserve Squadrons

• 101 Squadron
  101 Squadron SAAF
  101 Squadron is a reserve squadron of the South African Air Force. It's main area of responsibility is Mpumalanga Province in the role of crime prevention. The squadron is based at AFB Hoedspruit. These reserve squadrons are used to fill a pilot and aircraft gap within the SAAF by making use of...
  
  
• 102 Squadron
  102 Squadron SAAF
  102 Squadron is a reserve squadron of the South African Air Force. The squadron area of responsibility is from north of Polokwane to the Limpopo River and is used for reconnaissance flights along the South African and Zimbabwe and Botswana borders. The squadron is based at AFB Makhado...
  
  
• 104 Squadron
  104 Squadron SAAF
  104 Squadron is a reserve squadron of the South African Air Force. This squadron is used mostly in the VIP/IP transport role as well as reconnaissance flights in the Gauteng area. The squadron is based at AFB Waterkloof. These reserve squadrons are used to fill a pilot and aircraft gap within...
  
  
• 105 Squadron
  105 Squadron SAAF
  105 Squadron is a reserve squadron of the South African Air Force. The squadron operations include coastal reconnaissance, command and control and radio relay in crime prevention operations in co-operation with the South African Police and Army. The squadron is based at AFS Durban...
  
  
• 106 Squadron
• 107 Squadron
• 108 Squadron
• 110 Squadron
• 111 Squadron

Disbanded Squadrons

• 1 Squadron
  1 Squadron SAAF
  1 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 donated to South Africa by Britain. On 31 August 1939 the squadron was re-designated as 1 Bomber/Fighter Squadron and this was...
  
  
• 3 Squadron
  3 Squadron SAAF
  3 Squadron SAAF was an air force squadron of the South African Air Force. It was formed in January 1939 at Air Force Base Waterkloof and was equipped with Hawker Hartbees I and Hurricane Mk II aircraft. The squadron was moved to Port Elizabeth in September 1939 after which it was disbanded...
  
  
• 4 Squadron
  4 Squadron SAAF
  4 Squadron SAAF was a South African Air Force squadron which served during World War II. It was resurrected in 1951 and remained active until 1958. Its final period of active service was from 1961 to 1991...
  
  
• 5 Squadron
  5 Squadron SAAF
  5 Squadron SAAF was a South African Air Force Fighter / Fighter-Bomber squadron during World War II. It was disbanded at the end of the war and was re-commissioned in 1950...
  
  
• 6 Squadron
  6 Squadron SAAF
  6 Squadron was a South African Air Force squadron as from World War II. It was disbanded and re-created a number of times, until finally disbanded in October 1990.The Squadron was formed in Cape Town in April 1939 and was equipped with Westland Wapiti IIIs...
  
  
• 7 Squadron
  7 Squadron SAAF
  7 Squadron was a squadron of the South African Air Force which served in the Second World War as well as in South Africa between 1951 and 1992. During the war, the squadron was employed as a fighter squadron deployed to the Western Desert as well as in the Aegean, Italy and Ceylon...
  
  
• 8 Squadron
  8 Squadron SAAF
  8 Squadron was a South African Air Force squadron during World War II and was again active between 1951 and 2001. During this second period, it was designated at different times as either a Citizen Force or Permanent Force squadron and was disbanded on 31 March 2001.-History:It was formed in...
  
  
• 9 Squadron
  9 Squadron SAAF
  9 Squadron SAAF was a short lived squadron of the South African Air Force during World War II. It was formed on 19 May 1944 in Egypt and was transferred to Minnick in Syria shortly after being formed. It spent less than a month in Syria when it was re-deployed back to El Gamil in Egypt on 28 June...
  
  
• 10 Squadron
  10 Squadron SAAF
  10 Squadron was formed as a South African Air Force fighter bomber squadron on 1 April 1939 and was deployed in a coastal defence role as part of Coastal Command until 1943 and was disbanded after the threat of Japanese naval actions off the South African coast had waned...
  
  
• 11 Squadron
  11 Squadron SAAF
  11 Squadron was a World War II squadron of the South African Air Force. It was created in South Africa in 1939 and served in East Africa until 1941 as an army cooperation and reconnaissance squadron. It was re-formed in 1944 as a fighter bomber squadron and served in Italy until 1945 when it...
  
  
• 12 Squadron
  12 Squadron SAAF
  12 Squadron was a South African Air Force squadron that served in World War II in East Africa and the Western Desert as a medium bomber squadron...
  
  
• 13 Squadron
• 14 Squadron
• 18 Squadron
• 23 Squadron
• 24 Squadron
  24 Squadron SAAF
  24 Squadron SAAF is a disbanded squadron of the South African Air Force. Its last role was as an attack aircraft squadron. The squadron was first formed on 5 March 1941 by renumbering 14 Squadron SAAF in Egypt....
  
  
• 25 Squadron
  25 Squadron SAAF
  25 Squadron was a maritime patrol and later medium bomber squadron of the South African Air Force during World War II. It was re-constituted twice between 1951 and 1990 as a medium transport squadron and was finally disbanded in October 1990....
  
  
• 26 Squadron
  26 Squadron SAAF
  26 Squadron SAAF is a disbanded squadron of the South African Air Force. The squadron was based at Takoradi, Gold Coast on the West Coast of Africa during World war II. They flew Vickers Wellingtons on anti-submarine and convoy escort patrols over the Atlantic. The squadron was seconded to No. 298...
  
  
• 27 Squadron
  27 Squadron SAAF
  27 Squadron was established as a World War II maritime patrol squadron of the South African Air Force. It was disbanded after the war and resurrected in the same role from 1951 to 1958...
  
  
• 30 Squadron
• 31 Squadron
• 32 Squadron
  32 Squadron SAAF
  32 Squadron was a short lived coastal patrol squadron of the South African Air Force during the Second World War. It was founded in December 1939 and assumed the responsibility for coastal patrols and anti-submarine escorts for shipping...
  
  
• 34 Squadron
  34 Squadron SAAF
  34 Squadron was a heavy bomber squadron of the South African Air Force during World War 2. It was formed in Egypt on 14 April 1944 and operated from Egypt and Italy until the end of the Second World War. It was equipped with Consolidated Vultee B-24 Liberator IV's.In July 1944, the squadron moved...
  
  
• 40 Squadron
  40 Squadron SAAF
  40 Squadron SAAF existed as a combat unit from early 1940 through to late 1945. It served in the East African Campaign, Western Desert, Tunisia, and Italy, reaching Austria by the end of World War II...
  
  
• 42 Squadron
• 50 Squadron
  50 Squadron SAAF
  -History:50 Squadron was formed on 1 December 1939 by amalgamating the SAAF's 17, 18 and 19 Squadrons. During the East African Campaign 50 Squadron operated a 'shuttle service' between the warzone in East Africa and South Africa as part of 1 Bomber Transport Brigade...
  
  
• 109 Squadron
  109 Squadron SAAF
  109 Squadron SAAF was initially established as 109 Air Commando. It was a Citizen Force squadron of the South African Air Force, established on 24 September 1963 at Mossel Bay. The unit was staffed by volunteer aircrew flying privately owned civilian aircraft...
  
  
• 86 Multi-Engine Flying School

See also

• South African Air Force
  South African Air Force
  The South African Air Force is the air force of South Africa, with headquarters in Pretoria. It is the world's second oldest independent air force, and its motto is Per Aspera Ad Astra...
  
  
• List of bases of the South African Air Force
• List of aircraft of the South African Air Force