Victory Aircraft Ltd. built 430 Lancaster X which served with RCAF Sqns under No. 6 Bomb Group in the UK, including KB839 which flew 26 wartime missions with 419 Sqn. with nine different crews. Postwar, KB839 was one of three 408 Sqn. Lancaster's fitted with an extended nose to carry high altitude cameras used for photo mapping northern Canada. Preserved in 1964, KB839 recently received a wartime nose and was painted as 405 Sqn's JB226, LQ-G, "Gutless Gert" which was shot down on its 61st mission on Nov. 17/18, 1943 en route to Ludwigshaven Germany. Greenwood is home for 405 Sqn. CP-140s.