On display at IWM Duxford. This Lancaster was the first of a batch of 300 to be built by Victory Aircraft in Canada. Test flown in 1944, it went to Britain in 1945 and was assigned to No. 428 Sqn RCAF. It returned to Canada in June 1945 for conversion to maritime reconnaissance. After retirement the Lancaster was put on public display in 1965. It was sold and shipped to the UK in 1984. Sold in 1986 to the Imperial War Museum, it was restored over an eight-year period. It has an unfaired ventral turret and the H2S fairing for the downward radar is visible. A Dambuster mine lies below.

Out in the sunshine.

Built in Canada by Victory Aircraft Ltd., ex RCAF KB889. Now displayed (attached to the rest of the airframe) at the museum in 428 Squadron RCAF markings. Registered as G-LANC on 31 January 1985 with the intention of restoration to airworthy condition, and cancelled by the CAA on 2 September 1991.

allocated G-LANC for its ferry flight from Canada

This Lancaster was built in Canada, arriving in England in January 1945. However, after only six months it was returned to Canada and converted to a maritime reconnaissance and rescue role along with various periods in storage and close scrapes with the axeman. In 1986 it crossed the Atlantic again and is now on display in AirSpace at the IWM Duxford.

This photograph also gives an overview of the packed AirSpace Hall at Duxford.