Lysander IIIA
Shuttleworth Collection Lysander IIIA at Duxford. The aircraft is painted in overall black and configured as an S.D. “special duties” variant as used for clandestine night missions into occupied France during WWII. Such missions included transporting SOE agents into occupied territory, dropping supplies for the French resistance and retrieving aircrew who had managed to evade capture.
This particular aircraft was built in Canada in 1942 and used as a target tug. It was acquired for the Shuttleworth Collection in 1998 and the following year painted in the markings of Lysander III S.D V9367 operating with 161 RAF Squadron from RAF Tempsford in 1942. This included the fitting a dummy 150 gallon underbelly fuel tank and fixed ladder.
Lysander IIIA
Shuttleworth Collection Lysander IIIA at Duxford. The aircraft is painted in overall black and configured as an S.D. “special duties” variant as used for clandestine night missions into occupied France during WWII. Such missions included transporting SOE agents into occupied territory, dropping supplies for the French resistance and retrieving aircrew who had managed to evade capture.
This particular aircraft was built in Canada in 1942 and used as a target tug. It was acquired for the Shuttleworth Collection in 1998 and the following year painted in the markings of Lysander III S.D V9367 operating with 161 RAF Squadron from RAF Tempsford in 1942. This included the fitting a dummy 150 gallon underbelly fuel tank and fixed ladder.