ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 195356
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| Date: | Saturday 2 March 1940 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Westland Lysander Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | Suomen ilmavoimat |
| Registration: | LY-124 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Buoy Island, near Stavanger -
 Norway
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
| Departure airport: | RAF Wick, Caithness |
| Oslo, Norway |
On 8 January 1940 Finland ordered 17 Westland Lysander aircraft at a price of £149,311 pounds sterling. Of these aircraft, only 11 reached Finland. All Lysanders were of subtype Mk I. The first 9 aircraft went by ship to Gotenburg in Sweden on 24 February 1940 and were assembled at Götaverken-factory, reaching Finland between 21 March and 3 May. The remaining 8 aircraft were to be flown to Finland. In fact 4 of them were taken by RAF for their own purposes and another aircraft was destroyed before the trip to Finland. The Westland factory paid back the money for 5 aircraft, total £40,263 pounds sterling.
Only 3 aircraft started their trip to Finland from middle of England, piloted by British pilots. During the flight on 2 March 1940, LY-124, piloted by Mr A. F. Anderson, had mechanical problems and was damaged beyond repair in a forced landing on a field of Buoy Island, near Stavanger in Norway. The remaining 2 Lysanders flew together with 3 Hurricane (HU-453, HU-457 and HU-460 that had started on the same day as the Lysanders but from Wick in Scottland) to the next stop that was Oslo. The 2 Lysanders reached Säkylä in Finland on 8 March 1940 together with the Hurricane fighters.
Sources:
1. http://www.network54.com/Hide/Forum/message?forumid=46825&messageid=1026311251
2. http://web.archive.org/web/20120612051959/http://www.sci.fi/~fta/hu-fin-2.htm
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bu%C3%B8y
4. http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=58.985800&lon=5.731600&z=9&m=w
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 13-May-2017 20:53 | Laurent Rizzotti | Added |
| 20-Jul-2019 23:58 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 21-Jul-2019 00:00 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
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