🇿🇦Airplane "Graveyard" In Germiston, Joburg (SAA Museum)✔️ 

This is an amazing airplane museum in Germiston. Please feel free to visit it and learn more.

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16:19 Boeing 747 Lebombo - 1971, is the one the flew over Ellis Park Stadium at the Rugby World Cup final between South Africa and New Zealand.

A lovely place to Be. I was raised by SAAMS. I once volunteered here and worked there too , I left just before covid. I still love this place with all my heart ,this place built me , l hope you all love it and cherish it, Special thanks to Barry Els and the rest of the management for everything you do for this museum. God bless this society.

Wow I Didn't Know That There Is A Plane Graveyard In Germiston Thank You For The Upload 😃😃😃

I only knew about plane graveyards in the USA desserts. I never knew about this place. I ll go there one day

You teach more about the country than schools do

Hi David! The DC "Skymaster" dominated the skies of West-Berlin during the Berlin Airlift (Blockade) of 1948-1949. They were literally landing and taking off at Tempelhof Airport in tandem 24/7. When the Soviets cut off West-Berlin from West Germany by closing the rail and road links, they were left with no option but to keep West-Berlin (literally a heap of rubble with millions of destitute locals and refugees) upright by flying in supplies through the 3 air-corridors they still had. The Soviets thought they could starve out West-Berlin and force the allies to abandon it. But instead, they were resolved to use the air corridors to retain the city as theirs. The allies appealed to all their friends to help. Several countries obliged. It is not widely known that SA sent the more planes and crew than any other country and made a significant contribution to that amazing operation called "Operation Vittles" where Vittles is an old word for food. A Skymaster stands on the grounds of the Allied Museum in Berlin.

Well, thanks for showing. Having worked on some of those aircraft the visit brings back many memories.

I live nearby the airport and I can tell you it's a very nice place to visit😊

It really hurts me to know that in its heyday, SAA had well over 100 aircraft in service, flying to Europe, USA South Amerca, Hong Kong , Aussie and Africa. It was also the second oldest airline in the world. What happened ? 😢

Lebombo was awesome to see.

I recently landed at Rand airport and the runways is particularly narrow! I must have been something landing the 747 there🎉

been there, flew in the Lebombo in 98 from sa to Namibia, what a marvel

Thank you for making this video SIR 🙏🏽 you just made my day 💯

Interesting. The museum management should invest in building a bigger under roof shelter for the bigger planes also. Think in terms of preventative conservation these planes must protected against exposure to weather elements such as rusting and sharp sunlight. I would like to make some suggestions👌

Me and my family have been there many times. I have photos of my mother in law in the 2 flight simulators years ago. Had breakfast there. What a lovely outing.

Hi. Just a hint. When you drive a motor vehicle and you see a stop sign, it means you put on the brake pedal until the vehicle stop moving.

WOW those things(747's) are massive and can carry alot of passengers, its amazing to see and not always hear about them.

Good stuff

I remember when SAA received its first B747-400. They hosted an open day for the SAA staff to have a look at it parked in a huge hangar at the then called Jan Smuts airport. My father was a technician at SAA and as such I was lucky enough as a teenager at that time to go and see that fascinating airplane. I always wanted to be a pilot and I remember walking around the airplane with my jaw dragging on the ground with utter amazement. Now the interesting thing about this story is that at that time the dream of flying for me was an impossibility, especially financially. But as fate has it, I ended up after lots of sacrifice, finally managing to get my pilot’s license and eventually my career took me all the way to flying 747s today as a Captain with Cargolux flying both B747-400s and B747-8s. And I have even flown with the very pilots who flew that 747 parked in the hangar I once visited. Yes…. aviation is a small world indeed.

Awesome walk through! If you like this sort of thing you should also check out the SA Airforce museum at Swartkops in Pretoria. They have flying days the 1st saturday of every month which are the best time to go. Well worth the drive :)

Wow - I love airplanes - especially old one. Thanks for showing this. :-)

I worked there as a tourguide around 2014/5, in the cockpit of B747-SP Maluti (the 1 furthest away from ticket office)

Boeing makes beautiful airplanes than the current Airbus...

Great story. great story. in my humble opinion, as a professional photographer if you could slow down the panning of your camera. I would not get seasick/dizzy. Just a friendly suggestion.

"What A Tragedy.....'Once The Crown JEWEL Of MSANZI AFRIKA'.....'Like ESKOM,Brought TO The 'Status' Of A 'Graveyard/Museum'"

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I was there today. It was awesome. ❤️

How is it possible that those planes are still there, in South Africa if something is not chained down and locked it will be gone by tomorrow. AH, I remember the are going to need a pilot to steal if. That plane look inside like one of the planes I left South Africa in 30 years ago.

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Awesome Video as Always!!!

747 is my favourite aircraft of all time and I've flown on many different planes from a Vanguard and Comet 4 up to a 777 and a 380.

Courage ça ira

This is the first confirmation that I've had in years, that the Connie is still around. It still looks like it could be restored to flying condition. When I last saw it about 25 years ago, it was suffering from corrosion from the piles of pigeon poop. To the best of my knowledge, there is only one flying example left in the world.

Nice video but what you said was the cockpit on the B747 was actually the front of the bottom passenger deck. The cockpit is on the upper deck and has a totally different set-up from the passenger configuration. It is full of flight instruments and very unique place. But thank you for the walk around was exciting to see

Good stuff but the camera had issues

Can you tell me if the 747 Soutpansberg is stored there? That was the plane that brought me home from West Germany after my exchange on the East/West German border after 4.5 years in a Angolan prison.

Hi. Would like to correct you by saying it's an airplane scrapyard. It is not so but rather a museum.

Why uis the cockpit locked?

I visited the site on 16 December 2022.

Is it a graveyard or museum?

There are lots of places at Home I didn't know they exist, these alot at Home I have to explore. . . Where's that Location here at Home ?

14:58 the one with an Apartheid flag and orange tail last time I checked they still flies those the are 2 of them they once landed in 43 Air School Port Alfred l think 2017 and 2018

to think Dec 1978 i flew back from Windhoek to Bloemfontein airport on such a plane after the 1978 South West Africa elections,

Do they allow access to the cockpit?

I can understand why it is a graveyard. Where is SAA today.?

Ha ha I just thought I was going to fart but now there's a smelly steamer in my underpants

Where are our 727 why is there not to show, they were the safes air Boeing ever built I use to travel around a lot during those hey days in them

You are in Ekurhuleni...not in Johannesburg!

it seems to me that you do not know the difference between a graveyard and a museum. lol

Mom no prat Afrikaans

the only thing that put me off was too much "you guys"