List of Westland Lysander operators

List of Westland Lysander operators

The following are units which operated the Westland Lysander. Please note that for some of these Squadrons the Lysander was used in a secondary role for communications and was not the main equipment of the squadron.

Military operators

AUS

;Royal Australian Air Force
*No. 3 Squadron RAAF
*No. 451 Squadron RAAF


=flagicon|India|British British India=

;Royal Indian Air Force [ [http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/History/1940s/Lysander.html The Westland Lysander II in Indian Air Force Service] ]
*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 [ [http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/History/1940s/Lysander03.html No. 104 (GR) Squadron, Indian Air Force] ]
*No. 1 Air Gunnery School (India)
*No. 22 AACU

flag|Canada|1921

;Royal Canadian Air Force
*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

flag|Egypt|1922

;Royal Egyptian Air Force
* No. 1 Squadron

FIN

;Finnish Air Force
*No. 12 Squadron, Finnish Air Force
*No. 14 Squadron, Finnish Air Force
*No. 16 Squadron, Finnish Air Force

flagicon|France|free Free France

;Free French Air Force

IRL

;Irish Air Corps

POL

;Polish Air Force in Great Britain
*No. 309 "Land of Czerwien" Polish Fighter-Reconnaissance Squadron

POR

;Portugal Air Force

flag|South Africa|1928

;South African Air Force

TUR

;Turkish Air Force

UK

;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. 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

;Fleet Air Arm

flag|United States|1912

;United States Army Air Force
* 330th Bomb Squadron
* 340th Bomb Squadron
* 2025th Gunnery Flight
* 2031st Gunnery Flight
* 496th Fighter Training Group

References

Notes

Bibliography

* 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.


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