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To commemorate the cradle of Aviation in South Africa, the first flying school ever opened in South Africa in 1913
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- Frances Baard
- Sol Plaatje
Erf/Farm Portion: 13
Kimberley
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archiveimport Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency
The Memorial to the Pioneers of Aviation, consisting of a symbolic monument designed by A P du Toit and replicas of the first hangar and Compton Paterson biplane, was erected on the site of the original airfield where Cecil Compton Paterson established South Africa's first flying school in 1913. Of the first 10 pupils only five passed. These flyers became the first pilots of the then newly formed South African Aviation Corps, which was the forerunner of the present South African Air Force.
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Declaration
The site with the Memorial to the Pioneers of Aviation, consisting of 3 360 square metres of land together with all the structures thereon, situate on the remainder of the farm Alexandersfontein 123, Division of Kimberley, as detailed on Site and Locality Plan 362, filed in the Office of the Registrar of Deeds in Kimberley and on file 3/K/K-y/21 in the Office of the National Monuments Council in Cape Town.
Deed of Transfer 7211/1899, dated 30 September 1899 (paragraph 111).
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