Air Force Base Swartkop | |||||||||||||||
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 Air Force Museum entrance featuring the welcome sign and air traffic control tower | |||||||||||||||
 Museum open day at AFB Swartkop | |||||||||||||||
| Summary | |||||||||||||||
| Airport type | Military | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | South African Air Force | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Centurion, Tshwane, Gauteng, South Africa | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 4,780 ft / 1,457 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 25°48′25″S 28°09′52″E / 25.80694°S 28.16444°E | ||||||||||||||
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  FASK Location in Gauteng Province | |||||||||||||||
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Air Force Base Swartkop (ICAO: FASK)[1] is South Africa's oldest air force base and houses the South African Air Force Museum. It is managed as part of AFB Waterkloof[2] and houses one of the three branches of the South African Air Force Museum. The name of the air force base, Swartkop means Black hill in Afrikaans.
AFB Swartkop is located in the town Centurion (previously Verwoerdburg) in the Gauteng Province of South Africa, between Pretoria and Midrand (Johannesburg), which is a part of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality.
- ^ "World Aeronautical Database". Archived from the original on 18 August 2019. Retrieved 12 June 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "AFB Waterkloof". South African Air Force. Archived from the original on 24 September 2008. Retrieved 12 June 2009.