Pakistan Air Force Museum

Karachi

(visits on 19 November 2006 & 27 March 2007)


The PAF Museum, Karachi is situated in a park on the edge of the Faisal PAF Base on the main Shahra-e-Faisal.

There are 28 aircraft displayed outside and 7 in a hangar display. In addition there are several interesting airframes in a dump behind the hangar.

 

Click on photographs for high power views

 

Google Earth views of the PAF Museum

Left: high power view of the site                                         Right: low power with the museum park at bottom left corner

 

 

Aircraft on display outside:

North American T6 4200 "RA"                                             Mushak 90-5314 "314"

 

 F104A 62-862 "8-862"  Turkish Air Force

 

F104B

57-1309

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                  

 T33A 53-259 "259"

                  T33A 55-3113 "113"  

        

 

T33A 56-1601 "601"                  

Sabre 6 1626 and 1792 "792" 

 F86F 55-5005                                                                       Sabre 6 1797 "797"        

  

An26 "278" and An12 "380" Afghan Air Force 

Douglas A26: unmarked, but probably AP-AVV, ex 44-34568 

 

  Mig 15UTI 71-5618 "618"                                              Shenyang FT6 10103

Shenyang F6 4120 "120" and 10434

                                                           Shenyang F6 1003 and 7624 "624"

 

Mig 21bis Afghan Air Force "957"

 

 Martin B57B 53-11957 "957"                                                             Mirage 5PA "424"

Cessna Bird Dog O1E 76012 and Aero Commander 892-S

 

Pazmany PL2                                                                        Helio Courier AP-AOU

 

                                                                          Kaman HH43P Huskie 62-4556

 

End of the day 

 In the hangar: 

     Tiger Moth D501 "21"                                                  Auster Aiglet Trainer W4108

 

         Captured Indian Gnat F1 IE1083                                       F104A 56-798

 

 Locally built "Al Munir", ex AP-BCU. Flew once.                      Sabre 6 1756 "756"

 Personal Viking 1B  J750 of Pakistan's "Founding Father", Muhammad Ali Jinnah

 

In the dump:

Shenyang F6 1606                                       SF25C Falke, wn 44140. The PAF used 3:

                                          44139 is also in this dump

 

   B57C 53-3846. Its fin is nearby.                   F86F 53-1632 "632"

                                                                       Note also the fin of Indian Su7 B910                                                                        shot down in 1971

 

 RAAF Mirage III A3-48                                   Hind, Afghan Air Force. cn

                                                                       3532463615084

In the dump are also:

Parts of F86 31130

Frame of Alouette III 1477

HH43P Huskie 4553, plus the fuselage of another and 2 sets of fins: 4556 and 4557

 

There are several other preserved aircraft in Karachi:

Ouside PAF Faisal, near the PAF Museum are F6 5519 and RT33A "090"

 

 Sabre 6 1701 at the gate of NED University                           Atlantic 53 at the Maritime Museum

 

    Boeing 720-047B AP-AXM outside the PIA Planetarium

 

    Also, outside Mehta Navy Base, near PAF Faisal, is an F6 "624"