Westland Lysander - Variants

Variants

Lysander Mk.I

Powered by one 890 hp (664 kW) Bristol Mercury XII radial piston engine. Two forward-firing 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Browning machine guns in wheel fairings and one pintle-mounted 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Lewis or Vickers K machine gun in rear cockpit. Optional spat-mounted stub wings carried 500 lb (227 kg) of bombs. Four 20 lb (9 kg) bombs could be carried under rear fuselage.

Lysander TT Mk I

Lysander Mk Is converted into target tugs.

Lysander Mk II

Powered by one 905 hp (675 kW) Bristol Perseus XII sleeve valve radial piston engine.

Lysander TT Mk II

Target tug conversion of the Lysander Mk.II.

Lysander Mk III

Powered by one 870 hp (649 kW) Bristol Mercury XX or 30 radial piston engine, 350 delivered from July 1940. Twin 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Browning guns in rear cockpit.

Lysander Mk IIIA

Similar to the Lysander Mk I. Mercury 20 engine. Twin 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Lewis guns in rear cockpit.

Lysander Mk III SCW

Special version for clandestine operations. No armament, long-range 150 gallon fuel tank, fixed external ladder.

Lysander TT Mk III

Lysander Mk Is, Mk IIs and Mk IIIs converted into target tugs.

Lysander TT Mk IIIA

100 dedicated target tugs.

P.12 Lysander Delanne

Experiment to try adapting the Lysander as a turret fighter, with twin tailed Delanne tandem wing and 4-gun Nash & Thomson power-operated tail gun turret replacing the empennage. Never proceeded past flying prototype with turret mock-up.

In 1940 at least one was tested with a pair of 20mm cannon mounted on the undercarriage (replacing the stub wings); the intention was to use the aircraft for ground attack missions against the threatened German invasion of Britain.