Lysander at Crookstown - query

Dear Editor,

I am researching a piece relating to an old aircraft that was on display for a time in the forecourt of a garage owned by a Gorman family at Crookstown.

The aircraft or what was left of it was the fuselage of a Lysander which was formerly in service with the Air Corps until around 1946/1947.

This aircraft was sold on and I understand has been restored and is now flying in New Zealand!

I have access to logbook entries and information on its role and uses while in service. What I need now to completer the story is to get any information or photos of its time here in Kildare.

Desmond Travers, Kilcullen Heritage Group.

(Editor's Note: As a child I have vivid memories of that plane, as it was a key visual waypoint when we were making family journeys to the seaside at Courtown via Castledermot and Tullow. When we could shout: "There's the plane!" outbound, we knew we had actually left the orbit of Kilcullen, and when we did the same inbound, we knew we were safely in the final stage of re-entry.)