By: Jur - 29th September 2015 at 15:16
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
By: Robert Whitton - 29th September 2015 at 14:53
In store at East Fortune 1970’s
By: John Green - 29th September 2015 at 11:39
There is one of these machines in a hangar at Brimpton – if I’m not mistaken.
By: David Burke - 28th September 2015 at 23:30
Nice to see it turn up ! Pity it didnt stay in that hangar at Strathallen !
By: Propstrike - 28th September 2015 at 22:18
G-ANOK needs a loving owner now. £5k is mooted..
”Saab Safir in a fairly neglected state. This aircraft has been left outside for 20yrs and it shows. Having said that it has no obvious damage and I couldn”t see any corrosion to the airframe. The wings were removed and stored indoors so they should be very good. Engine is a Lycoming 0-435 6cyl 190hp. There is a spare crated engine for sale seperately.
I am going to get some photos taken this week and upload them as well as a video. Google the reg and there are a few photos of it on the net.
Please get in touch only if you are serious.
I think this plane could fly again but would need an awful lot of time and money thrown at it.”
http://www.afors.com/index.php?page=adview&adid=34618&imid=0
By: Robert Whitton - 12th February 2011 at 10:05
Eventually found these of NOK at East Fortune. The first picture is not mine and was taken in the hangar that was used to store items.
By: Arabella-Cox - 28th January 2011 at 08:52
This one has appeared on another thread. It is a Gipsy powered machine:-http://s998.photobucket.com/albums/af106/roblegin/?action=view¤t=…
Planemike
By: keithnewsome - 27th January 2011 at 21:59
Yet another Safir photo !! I think I should get out more often ?? 😉
Keith.
By: TwinOtter23 - 27th January 2011 at 20:47
That’s the one, pictured being ‘ground-run’ in this post here http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showpost.php?p=1246866&postcount=31 🙂
By: Newforest - 27th January 2011 at 20:10
Which would be G-BKPY, a 91b/2 model. 🙂
By: TwinOtter23 - 26th January 2011 at 19:29
I always think the Safir looks like a lovely aeroplane …………
It’s a very elegant and popular aeroplane .. recently someone tried to purchase the ex-Royal Norwegian AF example at Newark, which itself was briefly on the UK Register in the mid-1980s!
By: David Burke - 26th January 2011 at 19:22
Yes I would love to see them Robert.
By: Arclite03 - 26th January 2011 at 13:49
I always think the Safir looks like a lovely aeroplane but what a strange undercarriage – why so short and squat – surely this must increase the risk of prop strike…………
I think once the gear is up the aircraft just looks ‘right’ – what do other people think ??
cheers
Arc
By: Robert Whitton - 26th January 2011 at 11:38
Can anyone PM me the last registered owner of this machine as I would like to get in touch ?
Message sent. I may have photos. Let me know if of interest.
By: keithnewsome - 25th January 2011 at 22:35
This photo of G-ANOK is from Colin Lourie’s supurb collection, taken at Turnhouse ! in the 60’s.
Keith.
By: Thorgil - 25th January 2011 at 22:19
Air Britain has the location as Yarrow near Selkirk.
Alan.
By: Thorgil - 25th January 2011 at 21:54
Have the photo’s of G-ANOK in front of me after my friend and I dismantled it for the owner at Strathallan airfield where it had been stored for some time. From memory it was owned by a chap called Gault who arrived with his daughter and another chap with a long trailer. The aircraft was loaded by myself and my friend and was in good condition when it left for the owners home in the borders,Kelso and 1987/8 I think.
The aircraft was needing re certified, paint was in good condition but the red stripe down the middle was fading.
Hope you find it, was to good to leave to rot.
Alan.
By: avion ancien - 24th January 2011 at 21:49
http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/G-ANOK.html
“and now is laying in a barn on the Scottish Borders “
Sounds more like a chicken than an aeroplane. Perhaps someone living in the Scottish border region can send me a Safir egg!
By: wieesso - 24th January 2011 at 21:44
http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/G-ANOK.html
“It ended up in the East Fortune Museum in Scotland for a time when it was retired from service and now is laying in a barn on the Scottish Borders and no possible chance of restoration and re flying. A sad end to a very nice aeroplane.
I have fond memories of it, even though I was only 7 or 8 years old at the time.”
By: G-ORDY - 24th January 2011 at 17:26
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