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.