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Inkwazi is a Boeing Business Jet (BBJ / Boeing 737) aircraft that serves as the primary mode of air transportation for the President of South Africa.Operated by 21 Squadron South African Air Force, the aircraft has a seating capacity for six ministers and ten additional passengers. [1]
The President of South Africa travels in a Boeing 737 ZS-RSA "Inkwazi" which is designated as "South African One" and operated by the South African Air Force's 21 Squadron, which is based at AFB Waterkloof near Pretoria, the executive capital, i.e. the seat of the executive branch of the South African government. [citation needed]
Presidential transport: BBJ 2001 1 Citation II: Spain: VIP transport: 1983 2 Falcon 900: France: VIP transport: 1992 1 Falcon 50: France: VIP transport: 1982 2 Helicopters; Atlas Oryx: South Africa: Transport: Mk. II 1990 39 [7] AH-2 Rooivalk: South Africa: Attack: Mk. I 1999 11 [8] 11 helicopters are currently in service, they have been ...
In January 2003 the squadron received the new presidential Boeing BBJ. [1] [3] The Boeing 737 BBJ is known as "Inkwazi", meaning "Fish eagle" in the Xhosa and Zulu languages. [5] The aircraft is based on the Boeing 737-700 and has an upgraded interior. It arrived in South Africa on 21 October 2002. [5]
The South African Air ... among them 85 South Africans. [84] President Jacob Zuma ordered the South African Air Force ... to command and fly a Hercules C-130 cargo plane.
The plane carrying 51-year-old Vice President Saulos Chilima, former first lady Shanil Dzimbiri and eight others left the southern African nation’s capital, Lilongwe, at 9:17 a.m. and had been ...
Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon used an Air Force One plane known as SAM 970. The first jet-powered presidential aircraft featured an office and a safe for the nuclear codes.
South Korea’s acting President Choi Sang-mok ordered an emergency inspection of the country’s Boeing 737-800s, the type of plane used on the the fatal Jeju Air Flight 7C2216.