Welcome To The Small Air Forces Observer

Are you interested in the story of the Danish air arms up to WWII, Bulgarian Arad Ar 196s, Mexican Vought Kingfishers, Israeli F-15s, etc.? Do you want to finish models in strange and exotic insignia such as Colombian Piper Cherokee, Iranian Stearman PT-17, Ecuadorian Curtiss-Wright CW-19R, Katanga AT-6/Harvard, etc.? (These are just a few of the articles and drawings that have appeared in the lasts four issues of the SAFO.)

Then this is the magazine for you!

The Small Air Forces Observer is a quarterly publication chronicling the people, aircraft, operations, and markings of the not-so-large air forces around the world and throughout history. Each issue contains 36 advertisement-free pages of text, photos, and drawings.

Annual subscription to four issues of SAFO is US $20.00 in the USA and $24.00 for airmail rest of world. Payment should be made in currency notes
($, €, ₤, etc.), by International Money Order, by a check in US dollars, or on the Internet at PayPal to safo@redshift.com (add 7% for PayPal fee). New subscriptions begin with the next issue published after payment is received; if you desire otherwise, please specify which back issues are desired.

Read a Sample Issue

Vol. 31 no. 3 (Issue 123) January 2008
Contents Include:

  • Mystery of O-47A 37-285
  • Turkish Curtiss Hawk II
  • Paraguayan DH Dove
  • Israeli F-15 (Part 4)
  • Yugoslav Potez XV
  • Spanish Me 110
  • Chinese PT-17

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