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    Airframe Family: Westland Lysander
    Latest Model:Lysander IIIA
    Last Military Serial:2363 RCAF
    Last Civil Registration:C-GCWL
    Compressed ID:Westland Lysander IIIA sn 2363 RCAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Mount Hope, Ontario

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    Dates

    Event

    1942

    Constructed as a Lysander IIIA.
    Lysander LYS 3A (Lysander MK 1202

    Taken on Strength/Charge.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 2363.

    To Friends of Canadian Warplane Heritag, Tonawanda, NY with new c/r N1274.

    19 September 1996

    Civil registration, N1274, cancelled.
    Exported to Canada.

    October 1996


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Canadian Warplane Heritage in Mount Hope, Ontario.

    December 1996


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Canadian Warplane Heritage in Mount Hope, Ontario.

    12 May 2009

    To Canadian Warplane Heritage, Mount Hope, ON with new c/r C-GCWL.

    Based at Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Mount Hope, ON.
    View the Location Dossier

    Restored.

    Markings Applied: 2363

    13 May 2009

    Assigned civil registration: C-GCWL (LYS 3A (Lysander MK, 1202)

    13 May 2009

    To unknown owner with c/r C-GCWL.

    9 June 2009

    First flight.
    Flew at 4:14 PM with Robert Erdos at the controls.

    By 21 June 2009


    Photographer: Dale Morton

    29 August 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: The Canadian Warplane Heritage Lysander in the foreground posing with the Vintage Wings of Canada Lizzie back and to the left, and the Canadian Air and Space Museum artifact in the background. Three Lysanders in one location, a very rare sight!

    17 June 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Hamilton Air Show hosted by the Canadian Warplane Heritage in Mount Hope, Ontario.

    Markings Applied: 2363

    16 June 2012


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    14 September 2013


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: 2013 photo taken at the Ottawa - Gatineau-en-vol Air Show
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    unreviewed imported data.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     World Military Out of Service 2008 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Transport Canada
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
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