Corgi AA36803 Westland Lysander Mk.II Royal Air Force R1992 Western Desert, 1940 WWII Legends Range

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The rear canopy is included in the box, but was not attached for the photographs. The Lysander is a two-seat artillery-spotting and reconnaissance monoplane defined by Specification A.39/34 in response to Operational Requirement OR. 18. Three squadrons of Mk Is and three of Mk Us equipped during 1938/39 moved to France with BEF in 1939; about 50 Westland Lysanders were shot down and 30 destroyed on the ground in May 1940. Other squadrons operational 1938-39 in Egypt, Palestine and India; later served in Greece, North Africa and Western Desert, and Gibraltar.