The museum
The Ysterplaat satellite museum connects South African military aviation with Cape Town’s airfields and the history of coastal defense. Its collection includes early jets, indigenous strike aircraft, naval helicopters, and a Shackleton maritime patrol aircraft.
The Ysterplaat satellite museum connects South African military aviation with Cape Town’s airfields and the history of coastal defense. Its collection includes early jets, indigenous strike aircraft, naval helicopters, and a Shackleton maritime patrol aircraft.
The aircraft collection concentrates on south African coastal and maritime flying, historic jet fighters, military helicopters and locally built trainers. The museum is based on an active military airfield, and access arrangements can be more restrictive than at an ordinary civilian museum. Visitors should confirm permitted museum days and any base gate requirements before setting out.
The aircraft entries below are selected records from the institution’s own collection pages, not a claim to reproduce its entire inventory. A type shown in a museum catalog is not automatically available for inspection: restoration, loan, operational, and reserve storage arrangements can change. Where the catalog does not establish current public display, these records retain an unknown display status.
What defines the collection
South African coastal and maritime flying, historic jet fighters, military helicopters and locally built trainers
What to expect
The museum is based on an active military airfield, and access arrangements can be more restrictive than at an ordinary civilian museum. Visitors should confirm permitted museum days and any base gate requirements before setting out.
What the museum holds
20 individually represented aircraft/airframe records from the cited SAAF Museum heritage roster for the Ysterplaat branch; holdings include display, flying, storage, restoration, replica and partial-airframe states
The inventory below separates what the museum or its sources say the institution holds from the smaller set of aircraft histories already connected to the Air Archive.
- Westland WhirlwindOn Display · WV224/961
- Atlas Impala Mk I cockpit section (480)On Display · 480
- Douglas C-47A (6832)Restoration · 6832
- Atlas Impala Mk I 460Unknown
- Atlas Impala Mk I 531Unknown
- Avro Shackleton MR3 1722Unknown
- Canadair Sabre Mk 6 372Unknown
- Dassault Mirage F1CZ 204Unknown
- Dassault Mirage F1CZ 213Unknown
- Dassault Mirage III R2Z 857Unknown
- de Havilland Vampire FB.5 208Unknown
- Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer S.50 416Unknown
- Lockheed PV-1 Ventura 6447Unknown
- North American AT-6C Harvard 7293Unknown
Open full museum-listed inventory (20 entries)
| Aircraft | Status | Identity |
|---|---|---|
| Atlas Impala Mk I cockpit section (480) | On Display | 480 |
| Westland Whirlwind Westland Whirlwind HAS.22 (WV224/961) | On Display | WV224/961 |
| Douglas C-47A (6832) | Restoration | 6832 |
| Atlas Impala Mk I 460 | Unknown | — |
| Atlas Impala Mk I 531 | Unknown | — |
| Avro Shackleton MR3 1722 | Unknown | — |
| Canadair Sabre Mk 6 372 | Unknown | — |
| Dassault Mirage F1CZ 204 | Unknown | — |
| Dassault Mirage F1CZ 213 | Unknown | — |
| Dassault Mirage III R2Z 857 | Unknown | — |
| de Havilland Vampire FB.5 208 | Unknown | — |
| Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer S.50 416 | Unknown | — |
| Lockheed PV-1 Ventura 6447 | Unknown | — |
| North American AT-6C Harvard 7293 | Unknown | — |
| Piaggio P-166S Albatross 896 | Unknown | — |
| Sud Aviation Alouette III 611 | Unknown | — |
| Sud Aviation Super Frelon 314 | Unknown | — |
| Westland Wasp 93 | Unknown | — |
| Westland Wasp 95 | Unknown | — |
| Westland Whirlwind HAS.22 WV224 | Unknown | — |
Aircraft histories connected to this museum
These links connect museum holdings to aircraft histories already in the Trackpads Air Archive. They are not intended to imply that every museum aircraft has a dedicated archive profile yet.