Looking for the elusive SAAF Bucc??? Corgi AA34106 1/72 SAAF Waterkloof No. 24 Sqn. Buccaneer.

South Africa was the only overseas country to order the Buccaneer and 16 were ordered by the South African Air Force designated S.Mk.50, which was a land-based export variant equivalent of the S.Mk.2, without hydraulic wing-folding gear. For comfortable operation at high take-off weights from hot and high airfields, two retractable Bristol Siddeley B.S.605 twin-chamber rocket engines, giving 8,000 Ib.s.t. were installed in the S.Mk.50s immediately forward of the air brakes. In service, the aircraft were equipped with four Nord A.S.30. missiles or Matra rocket pods. The last of the South African Air Force Buccaneers remained in service until 1990, but most of them had to be cannibalised to keep the last six airworthy, as Britain refused to supply spare parts for these to South Africa as part of its continued arms embargo. '414' was the fourth of the batch to be built and is now preserved by the South African Air Force.

Photos courtesy of Tricatus.