Aviationshop.co.za Website Review

welcome to the aviation shop in randpark ridge, randburg, south africa. tel: +27 (0) 84 338-5380 e-mail: [email protected] location:  trinity village centre. read our news & useful information on this and other pages before you click here to go to our online shop. due to the wide range of items offered for sale on this website, and their varying weights & sizes,. it is not possible for the website to automatically calculate packaging and shipping costs.. please use this website as catalogue only and e-mail your orders to [email protected]. you will be informed of the shipping costs and method of payment. back by popular demand! south african airways museum society historic flight scale: 1:100 product code: dc-00300c-002 click on image for larger view douglas dc-4 skymaster zs-aub outeniqua scale: 1:250 product code: dc-00400j-003 author dave lawrence takes the reader back to the conception of the airline in the middle 1940s and the setting up of the airline in 1947. he then covers the years of commercial air services (rhodesia) (pvt) ltd (1946 to 1960), and the years of commercial air services (natal) (pty) ltd (1946 - current). two not so well know periods in comair's history, the training projects for the south africa air force and the israel air force in the late 1940s and early 1950s, are also covered in detail. great detail is given on the company's maintenance projects, the hendrik verwoerd dam project, the years when comair operated south african airways' coastal schedules, the rationalisation of the airline in the period 1976 to 1992 during which the fokker friendships, amongst others, were introduced, and the game lodge schedules. the airline's venture into the jet age in 1992 is well docu*ented as is its as*ociation with british airways that started in 1996 and the introduction of its low cost brand kulula in 2001. for the aviation historian complete detailed listings of the company's an appendix is devoted to the key personnel in the airline's history while the stop press section keeps the reader up to date with the