List of Westland Lysander operators
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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. 24 Squadron RAF
- No. 26 Squadron RAF
- No. 28 Squadron RAF
- 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 Squadron RAF
- 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 equipped with Lysanders as main equipment.
- 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
- No. 7 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit
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.
Bibliography[edit]
- 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.