About: 85 Combat Flying School SAAF

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85 Combat Flying School is a unit of the South African Air Force (SAAF). It is a jet flight-training and combat operations school, it was first formed in 1982 at AFB Pietersberg (It was known as Advanced Flying School from 1967). It relocated to AFB Hoedspruit on 1 January 1993 due to the closure of AFB Pietersberg. 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. * Mirage IIIEZ/DZ/D2Z * Canadair Sabre Mk.6 1975 - 1980 * Atlas Impala Mk.I/II 1972 - 2005

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rdfs:label	85 Combat Flying School SAAF
rdfs:comment	85 Combat Flying School is a unit of the South African Air Force (SAAF). It is a jet flight-training and combat operations school, it was first formed in 1982 at AFB Pietersberg (It was known as Advanced Flying School from 1967). It relocated to AFB Hoedspruit on 1 January 1993 due to the closure of AFB Pietersberg. 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. * Mirage IIIEZ/DZ/D2Z * Canadair Sabre Mk.6 1975 - 1980 * Atlas Impala Mk.I/II 1972 - 2005
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Garrison	dbkwik:resource/xenMx1T1TiagdkaDicj2fQ== AFB Makhado
Branch	25(xsd:integer)
Type	Jet flight-training and combat operations school
identification symbol label	Squadron Identification Code
Caption	SAAF Bae Hawk Mk. 120
Dates	1982(xsd:integer)
Unit Name	85(xsd:integer)
garrison label	Current Base
Battles	SWA/Angolan conflict.
Anniversaries	--10-04
equipment label	Aircraft used currently
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Motto	Detrimento Sumus
abstract	85 Combat Flying School is a unit of the South African Air Force (SAAF). It is a jet flight-training and combat operations school, it was first formed in 1982 at AFB Pietersberg (It was known as Advanced Flying School from 1967). It relocated to AFB Hoedspruit on 1 January 1993 due to the closure of AFB Pietersberg. 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. * Mirage IIIEZ/DZ/D2Z * Canadair Sabre Mk.6 1975 - 1980 * Atlas Impala Mk.I/II 1972 - 2005 The school has been relocated to AFB Makhado from AFB Hoedspruit into a new purpose built facility with state-of-the-art computer-aided flight training instruments. The school shares this facility with the SAAF Gripen community. During October 2007 there were several pilots that went solo on the Hawk Mk.120. The squadron also participated in the annual South Africa National Defence Force preparation exercises and fired live cannon rounds and dropped live bombs. They also had a successful weapons deployment exercise to AFB Bloemspruit in 2007.

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