The Avro Lancaster, commonly known as the Lancaster Bomber, is a British Second World War heavy bomber. It was designed and manufactured by Avro as a contemporary...
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The Avro Lancaster is a British four-engine heavy bomber used by the Royal Air Force and other Commonwealth air forces during World War II. Of the 7,377...
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Avro Lancaster PA474 is a four-engined, Second World War era, Avro Lancaster heavy bomber operated by the Royal Air Force Battle of Britain Memorial Flight...
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The Avro Type 694 Lincoln is a British four-engined heavy bomber, which first flew on 9 June 1944. Developed from the Avro Lancaster, the first Lincoln...
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H) Avro 502 Avro 503 (Type H) Avro 504 Avro 508 Avro 510 Avro 511 Avro 514 Avro 519 Avro 521 Avro 523 Pike Avro 527 Avro 528 Avro 529 Avro 530 Avro 531...
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The Avro York was a British transport aircraft developed by Avro during the Second World War. The design was derived from the Avro Lancaster heavy bomber...
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more successful four-engined Avro Lancaster, which was one of the most capable strategic bombers of the Second World War. Avro designed the Manchester in...
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FM213 is an Avro Lancaster, one of only two airworthy examples in the world. It was built in Malton, Ontario at Victory Aircraft as construction number...
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The Avro 691 Lancastrian was a British and Canadian passenger and mail transport aircraft of the 1940s and 1950s developed from the Avro Lancaster heavy...
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It was developed by Avro from the Avro Lincoln bomber, which itself had been a development of the famous wartime Avro Lancaster bomber. The Shackleton...
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Victory Aircraft (section Avro Lancaster X)
German bombers. Initially the major wartime contract to manufacture Avro Lancaster heavy bombers was to go to the National Steel Car Ltd. headquartered...
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pounds (2,000 kg) of bombs; by the latter half of World War II, the Avro Lancaster (introduced in 1942) routinely delivered payloads of 14,000 pounds (6...
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Roy Chadwick (category Avro Lancaster)
in particular for designing the Avro Lancaster bomber, its follow-up Avro Lincoln and preliminary designs of the Avro Vulcan V-bomber. He also converted...
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was initially done by the Royal Air Force. The first of the two RAF Avro Lancasters chosen for the test flight, the morning of 29 April 1945, was nicknamed...
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The Avro Lancaster PA278 disappearance involved Avro Lancaster Mk.I PA278, F for Freddie, operated by No. 103 Squadron RAF (103 Sqn) of Bomber Command...
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Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (section Lancaster)
flight which provides an aerial display group usually comprising an Avro Lancaster heavy bomber and two fighters, a Supermarine Spitfire and a Hawker Hurricane...
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are operators of the Avro Lancaster: Argentine Air Force From May 1948 to August 1949 the Argentine Air Force received 15 Lancasters (registered B-031 to...
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although the majority of the production run was for the four-engined Avro Lancaster heavy bomber. The Merlin continued to benefit from a series of rapidly-applied...
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with two 0.50 Browning M2), and several British bombers, including the Avro Lancaster (outfitted with a Nash & Thompson FN-20 turret with four Browning .303...
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increasing availability of the more capable Handley Page Halifax and Avro Lancaster, which took over the strategic bombing of Germany. Decisions by the...
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Lancaster, the Japanese name for the Subaru Outback sold from 1998 to 2004 Avro Lancaster, the World War II-era bomber aircraft Duke of Lancaster's Regiment...
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burning Avro Lancaster heavy bomber over Germany. On the night of 24 March 1944, 21-year-old Alkemade was one of seven crew members in Avro Lancaster B Mk...
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RAF Lindholme equipped with Avro Lancaster I/III No. 1662 Heavy Conversion Unit RAF, RAF Blyton equipped with Avro Lancaster I/III & Handley Page Halifax...
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Aircraft in fiction (section Avro Lancaster)
Shining Sword) centres on a loner who takes over as leader of a Lancaster crew. The Avro Lancaster was the preferred aircraft of the fictional war hero pilot...
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the time. The squadron was formed on 21 March 1943 at RAF Scampton on Avro Lancaster heavy bombers. It was formed under great secrecy for the specific task...
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type of aircraft that was used to complete the mapping program was the Avro Lancaster, a World War II heavy bomber which had been converted for mapping. Ice...
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the Red Arrows. On 6 September 2022 a fly past of the Red Arrows and Avro Lancaster bomber aircraft took place in anticipation of the closure of the base...
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Command Groups, flew a mix of Short Stirling, Handley Page Halifax, and Avro Lancaster, all four-engined heavy bomber aircraft, along with Vickers Wellington...
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long tons (5.1 t), it could be carried only by a modified model of the Avro Lancaster heavy bomber. It proved to be effective against large, fortified structures...
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