Editing 1 Squadron SAAF (section)

=== Establishment ===
There had been no official squadron designations in the South African Air Force (SAAF) from its inception in 1920<ref name=SAMHSV5N6>{{cite web|last=Tidy|first=D.P. Major|title=South African Military History Society|url=http://www.samilitaryhistory.org/vol056dt.html|work=They Mounted up as Eagles: A brief tribute to the South African Air Force| access-date= 4 August 2011}}</ref> until the early 1938 when 1 and 2 Transvaal Air Squadrons were formed as training units based at Waterkloof Air Station which had been opened earlier that year.<ref>Becker (1991) p.49</ref> Each squadron comprised 18 aircraft, divided into 3 flights each, plus a headquarters or administrative flight per squadron. Each flight was structured to form the working nucleus of a squadron. A flight of [[Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5|SE5s]] was to be the cadre of a fighting/ground strafing squadron; [[Avro 504|Avro 504Ks]] of a training and artillery spotter squadron, and [[Airco DH.9|DH9s]] were to form the cadre of a long-distance communication, photographic, bombing, and reconnaissance squadron.<ref name=Eagles1>Brown (1970) pp.21-22</ref>