List of Westland Lysander operators
The following are units which operated the Westland Lysander. In some cases, the Lysander was used in a secondary role for communications and was not the main equipment of the squadron.
Military operators
[edit]Australia
[edit]British India
[edit]- No. 1 Squadron, Indian Air Force
- No. 2 Squadron, Indian Air Force
- No. 4 Squadron, Indian Air Force
- No. 104 (GR) Squadron, Indian Air Force [2]
- No. 1 Air Gunnery School (India)
- No. 22 AACU
Burma
[edit]- Burma Volunteer Air Force
Canada
[edit]- No. 2 Squadron RCAF
- No. 110 Squadron RCAF
- No. 111 Squadron RCAF
- No. 112 Squadron RCAF
- No. 118 Squadron RCAF
- No. 121 Squadron RCAF
- No. 122 Squadron RCAF
- No. 123 Squadron RCAF
- No. 400 Squadron RCAF
- No. 414 Squadron RCAF
Egypt
[edit]- No. 1 (Army Cooperation) Squadron - 19 Mark I and a Mark III. From 1940-1943, thereafter used for target towing.
Finland
[edit]- No. 12 Squadron, Finnish Air Force
- No. 14 Squadron, Finnish Air Force
- No. 16 Squadron, Finnish Air Force
Free France
[edit]Ireland
[edit]- Irish Air Corps
- 6 supplied in 1939
Poland
[edit]Portugal
[edit]South Africa
[edit]Turkey
[edit]- Turkish Air Force
- 36 Mark II supplied in 1939
United Kingdom
[edit]- No. 2 Squadron RAF
- No. 4 Squadron RAF
- No. 6 Squadron RAF
- No. 13 Squadron RAF
- No. 16 Squadron RAF
- No. 20 Squadron RAF - No. 221 Group RAF, India, 1942[3]
- No. 24 Squadron RAF
- No. 26 Squadron RAF
- No. 28 Squadron RAF - No. 221 Group RAF, India, 1942[4]
- No. 81 Squadron RAF
- No. 116 Squadron RAF
- No. 135 Squadron RAF
- No. 138 Squadron RAF
- No. 148 Squadron RAF
- No. 161 Squadron RAF
- No. 173 Squadron RAF
- No. 208 Squadron RAF
- No. 225 Squadron RAF
- No. 231 Squadron RAF
- No. 237 Squadron RAF
- No. 239 Squadron RAF
- No. 241 Squadron RAF
- No. 267 Squadron RAF
- No. 268 Squadron RAF
- No. 275 Squadron RAF
- No. 276 Squadron RAF
- No. 277 Squadron RAF
- No. 278 Squadron RAF
- No. 280 Squadron RAF
- No. 285 Squadron RAF
- No. 286 Squadron RAF
- No. 287 Squadron RAF
- No. 288 Squadron RAF
- No. 289 Squadron RAF
- No. 309 Polish Fighter-Reconnaissance Squadron
- No. 357 Squadron RAF - Special Duties
- No. 510 Squadron RAF
- No. 516 Squadron RAF
- No. 598 Squadron RAF
- No. 613 Squadron RAF - Auxiliary Air Force. From 2 April 1940, Westland Lysanders served alongside the squadron's Hectors. The Hectors and Lysanders were used to dive-bomb German positions and drop supplies to friendly troops near Calais during the late May 1940 Dunkirk evacuation.[5][6] In August 1941 the squadron began re-equipping with the Curtiss Tomahawk.
- No. 614 Squadron RAF - Auxiliary Air Force equipped with Lysanders as main equipment.
- No. 679 Squadron RAF
- No. 695 Squadron RAF
- No. 6 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit RAF
- No. 7 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit RAF
United States
[edit]- 330th Bomb Squadron
- 340th Bomb Squadron
- 2025th Gunnery Flight
- 2031st Gunnery Flight
- 496th Fighter Training Group
References
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ The Westland Lysander II in Indian Air Force Service Archived 15 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "No. 104 (GR) Squadron, Indian Air Force". Archived from the original on 16 January 2008. Retrieved 11 January 2008.
- ^ Air Historical Branch, 'The Campaigns in the Far East,' Appendix 2, n.d.
- ^ Air Historical Branch, 'The Campaigns in the Far East,' Appendix 2, n.d.
- ^ Scholefield 1998, p. 49.
- ^ Rawlings 1982, p. 239.
Bibliography
[edit]- Air Historical Branch, [https://www.raf.mod.uk/what-we-do/our-history/air-historical-branch/second-world-war-campaign-narratives/campaigns-in-the-far-east-vol-iii-india-command-sep-1939-nov-1945/ R.A.F. Narrative (First Draft), The Campaigns in the Far East, Volume III, India Command, September 1939 to November 1943, Appendix 2, 167.
- Hall, Alan W. Westland Lysander, Warpaint Series No.48. Luton, Bedfordshire, UK: Warpaint Books Ltd., 2005.
- Halley, James J. The Squadrons of the Royal Air Force & Commonwealth, 1918 -1988. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air Britain (Historians) Ltd., 1988. ISBN 0-85130-164-9.
- Rawlings, John D.R. (1982), Coastal, Support and Special Squadrons of the RAF and their Aircraft, London: Jane's Publishing Company Ltd., ISBN 0-7106-0187-5
- Scholefield, R.A. (1998), Manchester Airport, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: Sutton Publishing, ISBN 0-7509-1954-X