Helicopter with open hatches, 1996
Pencil drawing by J H L (Hugh) Beattie, Inns of Court and City Yeomanry, Implementation Force, Bosnia, 1996.
A side view of Westland Lynx helicopter on the ground with engine and nose hatches open.
First introduced into British Army service in the late 1970s the Lynx saw intensive service in Northern Ireland, the Falklands, the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq. 657 Squadron continued to fly the Lynx until January 2018. After nearly forty years service the Lynx was replaced by the AW159 Wildcat.
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 1998-11-127-1
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum Copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study Collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1998-11-127-1