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    Airframe Family: Westland Lysander
    Latest Model:Lysander IIIA
    Last Military Serial:1589 RCAF
    Compressed ID:Westland Lysander IIIA sn 1589 RCAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Indian Air Force Museum, Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, Delhi

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Lysander IIIA.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n V9415.

    From 17 February 1942 to 1946

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 1589.

    30 June 1946

    Transferred to the National Aeronautical Collection.

    It was transferred to the National Aeronautical Collection and partially restored in Canada. In the late 1960s it was transferred to India and is currently on static display at the Indian Air Force Museum in Palam, Delhi. In its place, the Indian Air Force donated the Consolidated (Vultee) B-24L Liberator GR Mk. VIII, RCAF (Serial No. 11130), (5009), HE773, ex-USAAF (44-50154), ex-Indian Air Force, now preserved in the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa, Ontario.

    To Indian Air Force Museum, Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, Delhi.
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    12 February 2009


    Photographer: Peter Luke
    Notes: At Indian Air Force Museum, Palam, Delhi

    Markings Applied: Konkan, P9180 (false)

    25 November 2022


    Photographer: Simon Wallwork
    Notes: The Indian AF operated 22 Lysanders, but this Mark IIIa is not one of them. Marked today as P9180 it is actually RCAF 1589. Its likely that the museum swapped a Liberator with Canada 60 years ago, and that is how it ended up at Palam, New Delhi.
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