Palmietfontein Airport
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Palmietfontein Airport was an airport situated in what is now the townships of Thokoza and Katlehong to the south of Johannesburg, South Africa, from 1945 to 1952.
Newspaper article published in The Star of 3 May 1952 regarding the world's first commercial jet flight which took place from London to Palmietfontein Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Rand Airport
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Rand Airport is an airport in Germiston, South Africa. It was constructed in the 1920s as the main airport for Johannesburg, but the city outgrew it and replaced the airport with Palmietfontein Airpor
Palmietfontein Airport
…whilst the new airport, Jan Smuts Airport (now O. R. Tambo International Airport), was being built. The airport serving Johannesburg at the time, Rand Airport, was unable to accommodate the size of aircraft to be operated on a new service to Great Britain. In 1948, South African Airways moved its terminal to…
Rand Airport Control Tower from landside
Rand Airport from the observation deck
The Lebombo, a retired Boeing 747 from South Africa Airways, on display at the SAA Museum
Boeing 747SP at the South African Airways Museum Society situated near the threshold of Runway 29