85 Combat Flying School is a unit of the South African Air Force (SAAF).

[1] Aircraft used previously : The school has been relocated to AFB Makhado from AFB Hoedspruit into a new purpose-built facility with state-of-the-art computer-aided flight training instruments.

The school shares this facility with the SAAF Gripen community.

[2] The squadron also participated in the annual South Africa National Defence Force preparation exercises and fired live cannon rounds and dropped live bombs.

They also had a successful weapons deployment exercise to AFB Bloemspruit in 2007.