Location: -/EBGB

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: this factory fresh Saab Safir, licence-build by De Schelde (the Netherlands), was on February 24 1953 registered to the Belgian State, department Ministry of Communications, for Ecole d’Aviation Civile / Burgerlijke Luchtvaartschool (founded in May 1952) but operated by Sabena and based at Grimbergen airfield. It arrived a month earlier on January 29 1953 at its home base Grimbergen airfield and provided training for future Sabena pilots. Here seen such in a livery with tiny "Sabena" titles above the tail logo. On August 24 1953 it crashed on a VFR flight in poor weather at Krabbendijk (the Netherlands) whereby the sole occupant (the pilot) was killed after been disorientated in the low clouds. Later on September 2 of the same year it was cancelled from the register.