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    Airframe Family: Westland Lysander
    Latest Model:Lysander III
    Last Military Serial:R9125 RAF
    Compressed ID:Westland Lysander III sn R9125 RAF
    Latest Owner or Location:RAF Museum, Grahame Park Way, Hendon, London, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Lysander III.

    2 September 1940

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n R9125.

    New serial number assigned: 8377M RAF

    By 1965

    To RAF Museum, RAF Cosford.

    Markings Applied: R9125, LX L

    By 10 September 1968


    Photographer: Peter M. Law
    Notes: RAF Westland Lysander at Horse Guards Parade, London for the 50th Anniversary celebrations of the RAF

    By 1969

    To RAF Museum Store, RAF Henlow.

    By November 1971

    To RAF Museum, Grahame Park Way, Hendon, London, England.

    21 August 1976


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Lysander III as displayed at the Royal Air Force Museum at Hendon in the Summer of 1976

    2009


    Photographer: Andy West

    11 December 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Lysander III in the Battle of Britain Aircraft Collection at RAF Hendon Museum

    To Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford, Cosford, Shropshire, England.
    In the Michael Beetham Conservation Centre for deep restoration.
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    10 June 2018


    Photographer: Thomas Delvoye
    Notes: RAF Cosford, UK

    21 February 2022

    To RAF Museum, Grahame Park Way, Hendon, London, England.
    Markings added: JR-M
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    Credits
    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Print Sources
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Wrecks and Relics

    Internet Sources
    Royal Air Force Museum
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society

    Individual Contributors
    Andrew Appleton

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