A few other Saab Safir’s

In my initial training for air traffic controller I’ve made quite a number of flights in Saab 91D Safir aircraft of the Rijksluchtvaartschool Holland (Government Flying School). It was a very nice aircraft to fly, only retracting the landing gear was a bit hairraising at first. You had to push a lever forward to do so (which required quite a bit of strength), but inexperienced students then also had a tendency to push the control column forward too! There are still a few examples of those 91D’s in airworthy condition in the Netherlands. The Rijksluchtvaartschool altogether operated 8 Saab 91A Safir (1950-1960) and 22 Saab 91D Safir (1960-1982) aircraft for the initial training phase.

A few pictures from 1965

And a few more recent ones

A few weeks ago in the Newark Museum