Westland Lysander - Survivors

Survivors

A number of Lysanders are preserved in museums in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Belgium, and elsewhere.

The National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, in the Udvar-Hazy Center located in the Chantilly, Virginia, suburb of Washington DC near Dulles International Airport has a Westland Lysander Mk IIIA on display, painted in a night finish with grey and green topsides, and marked as AC-B N7791, a No. 138 Squadron RAF aircraft famous for spy-dropping missions in wartime Europe.

Another example in the United States is owned by the Fantasy of Flight Museum but is currently on loan to and displayed at the nearby Florida Air Museum at the SUN 'n FUN Fly-In campus entrance, on the southwest corner of Lakeland Linder Regional Airport, in Lakeland, Florida. It is painted in a temperate sea scheme (Extra Dark Sea Grey and Dark Slate Grey over Sky) and marked as BA-C serial V9545.

In Belgium, Sabena Old Timers' volunteers and Sabena Airlines personnel restored the remains of a former RCAF Lysander during 1983–1988. It is registered as OO-SOP. The engine performance has been problematic, resulting in a forced landing and serious damage. Repairs were completed in December 2010 (Ref. Jersey CI International Air Display '97 Programme, Pg.12; also GOOGLE citations). Also in Belgium, OO-SOT (Ex RCAF serial 2442) is being restored to flying condition.

A Westland built Lysander Mk III (serial no. R9003) is at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, Canada. This example was a composite, restored from three aircraft by the RCAF as a Centennial project in 1967 and is painted in the early war temperate land scheme (Dark Earth and Dark Green over Sky).

A Mk III (serial no. 2363) is in flying condition at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Ontario. It flew for the first time following its restoration a few weeks before the Museum's Flyfest on 20–21 June 2009. It is finished in a yellow & black 'bumblebee' target tug scheme.

A Canadian built Mk III, construction number 1206, formerly RCAF s/n 2365, registered C-GVZZ, is being flown by Vintage Wings of Canada. It is painted in No. 400 "City of Toronto" RCAF Squadron markings, and is doped silver overall with RCAF serial number 416. After a full restoration, she first flew 18 June 2010 in Gatineau, QC.

Lysander Mk III construction number 1194, formerly RCAF s/n 2349 is on display at the Canadian Museum of Flight in Langley, British Columbia without most of its fabric covering.

Lysander Mk IIIT (ex RCAF serial number 2375) was on display at the Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada until July 2003 when it was shipped to a museum in Portugal. Like many Lysanders used in Canada, it was resplendent in "trainer" yellow.

Another airworthy Lysander is part of the Shuttleworth Collection based at Old Warden Airfield, Bedfordshire. It is a regular at vintage air shows, including the Shuttleworth displays and "Flying Legends" at Duxford. It is painted in the all black colour scheme of the clandestine SOE aircraft of 1942 and is marked as V9367 MA-B (of No. 161 Squadron RAF) the aircraft flown by Pilot Officer Peter Vaughan-Fowler, DSO, DFC and bar, AFC.

RAF Museum Hendon near London has a Lysander Mk III painted in the early war temperate land scheme marked LX-L R9125 of No. 225 Squadron RAF.

Imperial War Museum at Duxford has a Lysander III painted similarly to the NASM example but marked as MA-J V9673 also of No. 161 Squadron RAF.

Wessex Aviation and Transport had a Lysander IIIa marked as BA-C V9545 No. 277 Squadron RAFas of 1996. Current disposition is unknown. Aside from this example, several other Lysanders are in private hands.

A Lysander Mk IIIT (serial no. 1589) is a Canadian-built trainer on display at the Indian Air Force Museum, Palam (IAFM) in New Delhi, and is painted in spurious colours.