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There are some colour pics in Aircraft of the SAAF by Potgieter/Steenkamp published by Janes 1981 ISBN0710601174. Strange that the same A\c is blue in one shot and looks green in another! MODeller

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Not sure how easy it'd be to get, but:

Canberra - In Southern African Service - by M Hamence & W Brent , IBSN 0 958 38804 0

Might be interesting, apparently has about two dozen colour photos in it.

If the captioning is correct, then this:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0927...o_comments=hide

could well be one of the SAAF B(I)12s delivered to Peru after they were retired from use in SA.

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Canberra - In Southern African Service - by M Hamence & W Brent , IBSN 0 958 38804 0

Might be interesting, apparently has about two dozen colour photos in it.

I have this book - I'll try and post up some of the pics of the SAAF birds

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Basically there were 3 schemes. The Canberras were all delivered in High Speed Silver with castle roundels.

Some of the BI(12)s then had a composite silver upper fuselage and PRU lower fuselage with no castles - this is one of the schemes on the Model Alliance sheet.

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Subsequently they were all painted overall PRU blue. With castles originally but the castles were left off subsequently.

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Some pics I took of the T4/B2 at the SAAF musem are set out below. This scheme was also applied to the BI(12)s.

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