Lysander V9441

[ricardian]

This request was posted to Facebook:

Anyone help this guy please?His email address is [email protected]
Bit of a long shot, a wee while back I posted about Strathallan Airfield. I am currently researching something and wondered if anyone had pictures of a particular aircraft which was on display in the hangar. It was a Westland Lysander No. V9441 with the 'AR' markings of the RAF 309 (Polish) Squadron. It would have the Polish checkerboard flag before the RAF roundel on the fuselage. This is for a project I am working on.
Pictures do exist, but are subject to copyright and finding the owners is proving hard if not impossible. If I use a photo I will credit whoever it belongs to. It is possible that this aircraft was repainted after restoration at Strathallan, other aircraft numbers it could be shown as are, V9367 or V9552.

[treadigraph]

It is V9552/G-AZWT which is now owned and flown by the Shuttleworth Collection. It's now in an overall black scheme and carries the serial V9367... Sorry don't have any photos of it.

[ricardian]

Thank you, I will relay the information

[GeeRam]

Pictures do exist, but are subject to copyright and finding the owners is proving hard if not impossible

That's likely because those pictures will be over 20 years old, and possibly over 30 years old, if they are of it in the air, as it last flew in those markings around 1987, and then spent next 10 years in a hangar at the Strathallen Collection under acquired by the Shuttleworth Collection in the late 90's.......

[GotTheTshirt]

Slightly off subject but when I was working in Brussels the Sabena old timers were rebuilding a Lysander in one of the back hangers
Did they ever finish it??

[Self loading bear]

From this article
Sabena old timers

OO-SOT restauration started 1982
returned to flight 1987
crashed 2001
rebuild
May 2018 waiting months on carburetor.

suggest to read the article with Google translate

SLB

[treadigraph]

OO-SOT appeared at Flying Legends Duxford at least once with the Shuttleworth and ARCO Lysanders - three together, plus if I recall IWM's static airframe on the flightline too.

[Nomad2]

It's ex RCAF1582.
The civvy reg is correct of course, but it's not painted on the aircraft, at least as far as I can remember.
Both 'Vxxxx' serials are false.

[Amos Keeto]

Originally Posted by ricardian

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Here is my photo of her still in the Polish colours described flying at Farnborough in July 2000.

[treadigraph]

Funny thing is, it's one of those aircraft that to me seems forever associated with Shuttleworth - and yet it's only been there 20 years...

[John (Gary) Cooper]

V9441 309 Squadron

At Duxford

[megan]

Flying the type.

You Tube

[bobward]

For pictures, why not try the Air Britain photo website?

[Jhieminga]

Various photos of it are available online but you will have to contact the individual photographers if you want to use them.
https://www.airliners.net/search?keywords=V9441
https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=V9441
https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/search?...e_number%22%5D
The second link contains a lot of photos, including some period ones.

[Sue Vêtements]

I wonder why the spats (or wheelpants if you prefer ) were so big.

If you continue the outline of the tyre in that photo that circle is so much smaller than the housing it sits in

Maybe it was to allow bigger tyres to be used if necessary

[sycamore]

Because there is an oleo attachment on the end of the u/c frame,so the wheels go up/down inside the fairing,unlike say a C172..

[longer ron]

Internally sprung wheel as hopefully can be seen in this pic.

[megan]

The undercarriage has its shock absorbsion located within the wheel hub, a Dowty innovation for which they received a 2018 heritage award. In the above photo you can see the end of the strut is off centre to the wheel.

https://www.dowtyheritage.org.uk/con...heritage-award

[longer ron]

Sorry forgot to mention in my post above that the Lizzie Landing Gear is Fairly (cough) Large all round - one of the museums (shuttleworth ?) used to have a complete Lizzie Undercarriage Beam hanging on a wall - a one piece forging (?) which looked a little like a whalebone,so the aircraft ended up with large leg fairings and even larger wheel spats,they are pretty large diameter wheels anyway so would require a fair sized spat,not sure if the stub wing/pylon might have contributed to the original spat design ?

[Fargo Boyle]

The spats also housed a machine gun which added to their size