List of Westland Lysander operators explained

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

Australia

Royal Australian Air Force

British India

Royal Indian Air Force^[1]

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

Burma Volunteer Air Force

Canada

Royal Canadian Air Force

Egypt

Royal Egyptian Air Force

No. 1 (Army Cooperation) Squadron - 19 Mark I and a Mark III. From 1940-1943, thereafter used for target towing.

6 supplied in 1939

Poland

Polish Air Force in Great Britain

No. 309 "Land of Czerwien" Polish Fighter-Reconnaissance Squadron

Portugal

Portugal Air Force

South Africa

South African Air Force

Turkey

Turkish Air Force 36 Mark II supplied in 1939

United Kingdom

Royal Air Force

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. 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

Fleet Air Arm

United States

United States Army Air Forces

330th Bomb Squadron
340th Bomb Squadron
2025th Gunnery Flight
2031st Gunnery Flight
496th Fighter Training Group

References

Notes

http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/History/1940s/Lysander.html The Westland Lysander II in Indian Air Force Service
Web site: No. 104 (GR) Squadron, Indian Air Force . 11 January 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080116092332/http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/History/1940s/Lysander03.html . 16 January 2008 . dead .
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.

Bibliography

Air Historical Branch,
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. .
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