The South African Airforce Museum Airshow 2019 hosted a Youth Development program on the Friday before the show the following day. One of the exhibit hangers to be precise, Hanger 4 was furnished into a career hall where the youth could get involved and put into the aerospace world with lots of information from all different forms of aviation from the South African Airforce, Private Flight Schools and other aerospace industry’s including Paramount Group, Civil Aviation Authority, Denel and Mango Airlines.
At the same time, learners from different schools got to witness some validation flying from both the SAAF and civilian aircraft that were taking part in the show the following day. This also encouraged learners to be back at the base the next day for the airshow. The enthusiasm from learners expression are sure to be going into the right career path, as the future will have future aviators, technicians and ATCs.
SAAF Hawk MK120 during a validation flightRand Airport based Extra 300 duo
Learners got to have a small piece of flying an aircraft with the SAAFs Impala MKI Flight simulator, where they got to taste the thrill of flying a fast jet.
Impala MKI SimulatorFuture Aviator
The Museums display halls were also open for the learners to visit the past SAAF aircraft that are preserved by the museum and friends of the museum. Learners were also informed on the development on locally manufactured aircraft including the Cheetah and Rooivalk projects. These days surely invest in our youth in South Africa and will surely make a mark in encouraging the youth to get involved with Aviation. 2020 will be a bigger year for Aviation in South Africa and in the SAAF as our Airforce turns 100 years old.
SAAF Museum P51D Mustang “Pasty Dawn”Silver Falcons PC7MKII
Click on the link below of the days SAAF Museum Airshow Youth Development Program 6 September 2019
Aviation Central takes great pride in extending an opportunity to you to advertise with us on our online platforms …
About Aviation Central:
Aviation is an online-based Aviation Media house specialising in Aviation Events.
Our 1st Priority is Air shows & Aerobatic competitions, followed by Air Races, Fly-in’s, Plane-spotting and other aviation-related competitions.
We specialise in keeping our South African aviation-loving public updated on all these events as well as special aviation events, fly pasts and special visiting aircraft. Examples of these are the Presidential inauguration, the recent visit of the Russian bombers and the arrival of SAA’s 1st Airbus A350-900.
We cover these events for the entire Southern African region (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe).
Our team currently comprises of 6 members. In addition, we are currently mentoring a Grade 10 pupil in aviation media and photography. All our team members dedicate their time and energy at their own cost and personal time. We all have fulltime “day jobs” outside of the Aviation industry.
Aviation Central was initially founded in 2009 and has grown into a major role player in the online and social media space of Aviation in Southern Africa. We are official media partners to Africa Aerospace and Defence.
We have been running the official Facebook page for the Swartkop (SAAF Museum) Air Show since 2015 and were also media partner to AERO South Africa 2018. We have a Facebook following of over 33 000 and, at the current rate of growth, we expect to have over 40 000 followers before Africa Aero Space and Defence 2020.
Dec 2020 Facebook Stats
We also have about 10 guys and gals that often share photos and stories with us. We have grown to a point where we need to expand our attendance at more Air shows and other Aviation Events to keep our followers informed and updated. Our main focus point currently are the air shows and keeping our public informed about them before, during and post air show. Our larger following is the typical aviation and air show lover. The chap that dreams of flying, doing his Pilot’s licence or just going on a scenic flight. Planning his next holiday, not only around the accommodation and activities, but also on what Aircraft and Airline he can get a seat on. The chap that will always look up when an Aircraft flies overhead.
Our main expenditure currently is spent on our travelling costs to attend events, costs to cover camera equipment, website hosting as well as data costs for live video recording.
We are also in desperate need of a good entry level video camera suitable for aviation photography.
Who should advertise with us and why?
Considering the details above, any professional aviation business will most certainly benefit by placing an advertisement with us. Those that will benefit the most are, Flight schools, Cabin Crew Training and Technical Training organisations. Scenic Flight companies and Commercial Airlines will also most certainly benefit by advertising with us. Accommodation providers located in the vicinity of Aviation Events will also benefit by advertising their accommodation with us.
For R600 per Month you will receive:
2 x posts on our Facebook wall/page for the month.
1 x advert on our Website for the month running for the full month.
1 x Advert in our Monthly Newsletter (New and still low visibility).
Our Facebook cover image is also up for rental:
Subject to availability, preference will be given to major Aviation events.
R500.00 per week for a cover image. This includes an advert that will be placed on our website
(Priority will be given to aviation events).
This is the perfect spot for Air Shows, Aviation Open and Career days and Scenic flights. Image properties for the cover photo needs to be 820 pixels wide and 312 pixels tall.
Below is an example of the cover image:
Terms and Conditions:
All images and text used for adverts are to be supplied by yourself.
Text needs to be in such a format so we can just “copy and paste” it where required.
Cover images for Aviation events are given higher priority, this is however, available to everyone.
Cover image Prime spot can only be booked a maximum of 6 weeks in advance (1 – 6 weeks per booking).
Payments are to be made before adverts are to be placed.
The 2 x Facebook posts will be pre-scheduled on dates selected by yourself.
We are tax registered and an invoice will be provided to you.
Book and pay for 1 full calendar year and only pay for 10 months, this excludes Cover image rental (you save R1200).
There are 6 and 12 month contracts are available.
Photo image sizes to be used for advertisements…
Website
667 pixels Width and 1250 pixels in Height (This is our preferred option).
And / Or
828 pixels Width and 315 pixels in Height.
Facebook
940 x 788 pixels + Text.
The content text needs to written in such a format that we can just “Copy and Paste” it into the post on our Facebook wall.
This information needs to be sent to us once every 2 weeks as your advert will be posted twice per month.
The posts can be scheduled for a specific date and time – i.e. future-dated.
Sponsoring Team Aviation Central to attend an Aviation Event:
Also available are Sponsorship opportunities to help Aviation Central team to attend events.
If you can help us to attend an event, we will place free adverts for you for the month prior to the sponsored event as well as during the month of the event.
We will mention and/or tag you in all posts on Facebook and on our website on the build-up to the event.
We can also offer “magnet” style branding to our vehicles we use to travel to and from the events.
Branding need to be supplied by the sponsor.
Your company branded clothing in the form of caps and T-shirts can also be used by the team on a sponsored trip to attend an Aviation Event.
Banking Details for online Payments:
EVENTS AVIATION NEWS (PTY) LTD
Bank FNB
Account Number 62792754519
FNB Universal Branch Code 250655
Tax Number 9328355228
Attention All Flight schools or Aviation Academies
We at Aviation Central are running a campaign to help making young and old wanting to enter the Aviation industry life easier by having a list of schools and academies available to them on Facebook and then internet. This will run on our website and shared to our Facebook page.
Flight school listing on Aviation Central
Example of what the listing will look like
We are compiling a list of Flight / Aviation related schools in Southern Africa, to be added to the listing is Completely FREE! We are the perfect platform for this list as we are the Aviation related Facebook page with the most likes and followers in southern Africa (Excluding the Airlines) and most of our audience are the Aviation loving public. This include the Public that wants to enter the Aviation industry. This New Pilots, Cabin crew or any other Aviation related entity. The listing will be on our website, with a pinned link to our Facebook page. (Our Facebook page has the most visibility over our website)
Information we need from you to add you to our listing.
We will have 8 advertisement spaces on the directly listing page (On the sides of the listing table) where we will be placing an image adverts (Provided by you) with a routing to your website when someone clicks on the image. We will once a Month post that image on our Facebook page with a link to your website and or Facebook side. You are welcome to send us 50-100 words text to include with the posting of your Advertisement image. For more information please contact Admin@aviationcentral.co.za
Flight School Event share on Facebook R150 per share (e.g. Open day)
Are your school hosting an event where you want maximum public awareness?
Create an Facebook event page or send us a link to a website containing the event information, send us 50-100 words text to go along with the share and we will share your event for you. For more information please contact Admin@aviationcentral.co.za
Rent our Facebook cover image R150 per day
For Maximum Facebook exposure
As mentioned earlier, we are the perfect platform for this list as we are the Aviation related Facebook page with the most likes and followers in southern Africa (Excluding the Airlines) and most of our audience are the Aviation loving public. This include the Public that wants to enter the Aviation industry.
Our Facebook page is extremely busy and being official Media Partner to Africa Aerospace and Defense, running the official Airshow pages for Swartkop (SAAF Museum airshow) and Rand Airshow also increases our Facebook page visibility. Aviation Central Facebook book page has a Daily page reach of 40 000+ Facebook users (During peak airshow season this goes up to over 100k per day) We have an active “Likes” of 25 000 + (Aug 2018). For more information please contact Admin@aviationcentral.co.za
*Please note that Aviation Events, e.g. Airshows, Fly-in’s and competitions will get preference on double bookings.
