Air Force Chief Jonas Wikman handed over a symbolic logbook to Air Force Museum director Noomi Eriksson.
Here, a log book is handed over to the Air Force Museum during a ceremony when the SK60 is now retired and becomes a museum object. Photo: Tobias Holmqvist/SVT
– We are incredibly happy! This will be an experience for everyone who comes here, says Noomi Eriksson.
The plan must be placed in the warehouse hangar where there are also displays.
Teaching materials
A large number of SK 60s are handed over to the Air Force Museum and will be part of the museum’s collections. Several plans will also be used as teaching material at technical schools all over Sweden.
Virtually all Air Force pilots have been trained in the SK 60 over the past 58 years, but to the public the aircraft is perhaps best known from the annual so-called Christmas Tree Flyover.
Italy
The SK 60 is now being replaced by the new propeller plane SK 40. After that, the Swedish fighter pilots will have to go to a flight school in Italy where they will learn to fly jet planes.
Watch a demonstration flight and hear more about the SK60 in the video.