RSAF Museum in Riyadh

The Royal Saudi Air Force Museum or Saqr Al-Jazira is located on the East Ring Road of Riyadh between exits 10 and 11. A Saudi Lockheed L-1011 Tristar serves as a gate-guard visible from the AL Kharj ring road. Admission is Sr.10 for adults & Sr.5 for children. The museum is open from 9:00am to 12:00 noon and from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm daily, closed on Mondays.

I will  be posting pictures on my visit to the museum which is worth the value and centered in a modern style building with plans to expand in the next few years to possibly display a PC-9,Cessna 172 ,IDS Tornado and a future KC-135 tanker which are all earmarked to be replaced by the PC-21 ,Cirrus SR22 , and the Airbus A.330 MRTT.

The display halls contain exhibits on the history of the RSAF, aircraft engines and weaponry, uniforms, insignia and decorations and a special display on Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud,  the first Saudi in space who rode as a payload specialist on the Space Shuttle discovery on mission STS-51-G.

Aircraft on display inside  include:

• BAC Lightning F53
• Bell UH-1
• Bell OH-58
• De Havilland Chipmunk Mk 10
• De Havilland Vampire FB Mk 52
• Douglas DC-3 ( outfitted to match the aircraft given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to King Ibn Saud in 1945
• Hawker Hunter F Mk60
• North American F-86 Sabre F
• Northrop F-5E Tiger II
• T-6 Texan
• Temco T-35 Buckaroo A model

Aircraft on display outside include:

• C.130 Hercules
• ADV Tornado
• F-15 D Eagle
• Tristar
• B.707
• DC-4  Skymaster
• BAC Strikemaster
• T-33 Shooting Star
• A.26 Invader