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The Westland Lysander is a British army co-operation and liaison aircraft produced by Westland Aircraft that was used immediately before and during the Second World War.. After becoming obsolete in the army co-operation role, the aircraft's short-field performance enabled clandestine missions using small, improvised airstrips behind enemy lines to place or recover agents, particularly in ...
No. 3 Training Command RCAF was a training command of the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II established to administer the schools of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. History [ edit ]
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 .
With the reactivation of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, No. 614 Squadron was reformed on 10 May 1946 [2] [9] (though one source [1] claims 26 August 1947) at RAF Llandow as a day fighter squadron. Recruiting of personnel did not start until November 1946 though.
No. 161 Squadron Lysander at Tangmere 1943 The squadron was formed at RAF Newmarket on 15 February 1942 from 138 Squadron ’s Lysander flight and a flight of Whitleys and Wellingtons. [ 2 ] These were combined with pilots and aircraft from the King’s Flight to create the second SD squadron. [ 3 ]
Crews of 400 Squadron run to their Westland Lysander aircraft during an exercise at RAF Odiham, England, 1941. The squadron was formed as No. 10 Army Co-Operation Squadron at Toronto, Ontario on 5 October 1932, when it flew from the Trethewey Farm Airfield (De Lesseps Field) from 1934 to 1939. On 15 November 1937, it was renumbered No. 110 ...
At the beginning of World War II their standard aircraft was the Westland Lysander. This aircraft had a high level of losses with the British Expeditionary Force during the Battle of France: 118 shot down out of a total of 175 deployed. This demonstrated the unsuitability of the Lysander for Army co-operation and called into question the whole ...
No. 13 Squadron RAF with the Westland Lysander Mk III and the Bristol Blenheim Mk IV between 17 July 1941 and 1 August 1942 with detachments at RAF Detling, RAF Wattisham and RAF Thruxton. [8] The squadron returned on 10 August 1942 again with the Blenheim IV and for the first time the Mk V version. They left on 15 November 1942. [8]