IAF Museum restorations completed

摘要

Restoration of the Indian Air Force Museum's Hawker Hurricane and Wesdand Lysander has recently been completed at Palam, south-west Delhi, resulting in both aircraft now wearing authentic markings for the first time since they went on display during the late 1960s. The Lysander IIIa, RCAF 1589/ V9415 — which arrived at Palam in September 1967 from the Canadian National Aeronautical Collection in Rockcliffe, Ontario in exchange for Consolidated B-24L Liberator HE773 — has been finished in the markings of No 1 Squadron, Indian Air Force. This unit took delivery of its first Lysanders at Karachi on 1 September 1941, replacing Hawker Harts and Audaxes. It moved to Burma during January 1942, the 13 Lysanders traversing the entire sub-continent in seven long hops, flying 1,700 miles from Peshawar in the north-west to Toungoo in Burma.