Sun Air McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 ZS-NRB CN 47468 LN611 . Taken In February 1997 . Editorial Image

Sun Air (South Africa)Sun Air was a South African airline, originally owned by the Bantustan of Bophuthatswana, and later privatised. It ceased operations in 1999.The airline was revived in 2002 as a business-focused airline operating two aircraft between Lanseria Airport and Cape Town, before being liquidated in 2004Originally called Bop Air, after Bophuthatswana, the airline rebranded as Sun Air following the end of apartheid in 1994 and the reincorporation of Bantustans into South Africa. Ownership of the airline transferred from the government of Bophuthatswana to the newly created North West Province which took over much of Bophuthatswana's former territory, prior to the airline's planned privatisation in 1997