The first dedicated Douglas DC-9 freighter in South Africa has just been registered.

The aircraft is a 1969-built  DC9-33F, ZS-DBH,  of Stars Away Aviation, and arrived on the 11^th January 2007  registered N931AX.  Originally it was originally HB-IFW of Swissair before it became N931AX of Airborne Express.  It was to have been sold to a Pakistani company AST Pakistan Airways, but the deal fell through.

At present it is receiving maintenance attention at Cape Aero Service.

At the freight area of Cape Town International Airport several  cargo aircraft are present, which operate overnight flights between Cape Town and Johannesburg.

Safair,  operates cargo flights under the Imperial Cargo brand for Comair using Boeing 727-200Fs. Examples recently used are ZS-NWA and ZS-IAC. The latter , a model 227F (c/n 21247, ex N73751) is quite new on these shores, having been registered on 8^th Nivember 2006. It was originally built for Braniff (N446BN) and delivered to them on the 27^th July 1976.

African Air Cargo provides the DC 8-62F for a similar SAA contract.  Recently ZS-POL (c/n 46110) was seen  parked at the Cargo area.

During the summer period, a Russian Il76 is based at Cape Town International Airport for regular supply flights to Antarctica.  This season it was RA76797 (c/n 1003403052) of Aviast, a Russian cargo airline. PHOTOGRAPHY COPYRIGHT L J Vosloo/Airpic 2007