INDEX OF PRESERVED AIRCRAFT TYPES USED BY THE FAA

Avro Lancaster

Type	Total Number 2000	FAA notes 1999-2000	Threat Status 1999-2000	Changes 1999-2000
Avro Lancaster	23 total (+?) 2 airworthy 16 static complete 1 taxiing condition 2 wrecks 2 significant preserved aircraft parts (fuselages/engines)	No known FAA aircraft although 4 French Fleet Air Arm aircraft have survived.	In situ wrecks are unprotected	A number of aircraft are being restored including one to taxiing status by 2005.

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Avro Lancaster
Status	Civil Registration Nunber	Serial Number s/n	Type	Markings	Owner/Operator	Condition/Notes
	-	DV372	Mk I	See photo	Imperial War Museum, London, England. 467 Squadron, 1651 Conversion Unit.	Forward fuselage and cockpit section
	-	FM104	Mk X	See photo prior to 2000 restoration	Toronto Aero Space Museum, Downsview, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Previously on plinth/pylon outdoors at the Toronto National Exhibition Grounds (till November 1999) as a Royal Canadian Air Force Association Memorial. Postwar Mk.X Maritime Rec. 10 Rescue Unit. Website history of the aircraft	Static - Pending Heritage Toronto approval for a restoration plan, 2000.
	-	FM118	Mk X	See photo	Nanton Lancaster Society Air Museum, Nanton, Alberta, Canada BCATP Museum, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.	In storage - fuselage at Nanton Lancaster Society Substantial pieces at BCATP Museum
	-	FM136	Mk X	marked with wartime RAF roundels and squadron code "NA-P". See photo	Calgary Centennial Planetarium/Calgary Aero Space Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.	Static display
	-	FM159	Mk X	marked with wartime RAF roundel and squadron code "P2-T" See photo	Nanton Lancaster Society Air Museum, Nanton, Alberta, Canada. See history and restoration details in private website by Peter Whitfield	Static - Under restoration to ground running condition. First engine runs proposed for 2005.
	-	FM212	Mk X	Marked witrh wartime colours. See photo	Jackson Park Sunken Gardens, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Mounted on concrete pedestal	Static - displayed on outdoor plinth
	C-GVRA	FM213	Mk X	Marked as "VR-A"	Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Mt. Hope. Ontario, Canada.	Airworthy
	-	FM221	Mk X	See photo	In situ - Aircraft crashed at Resolute Bay, North West Territories, Canada, 23 September, 1950.	In situ wreck of complete aircraft
	-	KB839		Marked in early 1950's RCAF maritime search and rescue colour scheme with postwar RCAF code "VR-D Royal Canadian Air Force" and named "Daisy". See photo. Previously in all silver RCAF coulours with code "AF-A KB839"	Greenwood Military Aviation Museum, Greenwood CFB, Nova Scotia, Canada. Served 1945 with RAF 431 Squadron, 419 Squadron	Static - outdoors. Indoors being repainted 2000.
	-	KB882	Mk X	Marked in postwar RCAF colours.See photo	St. Jacques - Edmunston Airport, Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada. Served with RAF 434 Squadron, 428 Squadron in 1945 and did 11 ops over Germany.	Static - outdoors
	-	KB889	Mk X	Restored to this aircraft's wartime configuration. See photo	Imperial War Museum - Duxford (UK) Served with 428 Squadron RAF 1945	Static
	-	KB941	Mk X	-	Privately owned. Ex 420 sqdn RAF 1945	Centre section remains
	-	KB944	Mk X	Marked as "NA-P". See photo	National Aviation Museum, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Ex 425 sqdn RAF 1945	Static
	-	KB976	Mk X	-	Privately owned K. Weeks, Fantasy of Flight, Florida (USA) Ex Strathallan Collection (UK)	Under Restoration, Florida, USA.
	-	KB994	Mk X	-	Current Location unknown Ex 408 sqdn RAF 1945	Static - not public display
	-	ND689	Mk	-	Association Ailes Anciennes-Le Bourget Former submerged wreck of 44 sdqn RAF which crashed in a swamp by the small town of Long, located between Abbeville and Amiens in Northern France on 19 /20 May 1944 on a mission against the Amiens railway yards.	Components and engines recovered 1998
	-	NF920	Mk I	Named "Easy Elsie". See photos. Also see Wreck pictures	In situ wreck at Porjus, Sweden Total known ops serving with 617 sqdn RAF as "KC-E": Tirpitz (from Russia carried 12 Johnnie Walker mines) 15-9-44 Tirpitz (Tallboy) 29-10-44. Missing on operations during daylight raid 29-10-44 during attack on German Battleship Tirpitz	In situ wreck
	G-ASXX	NX611	Mk VII	The aircraft now carries the codes of both the East Kirkby units, LE-C for 630 Squadron and DX-C for 57 Squadron. It is in wartime colours and named "Just Jane" with accompanying nose art.	Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre, East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, England. Ex Historic Aircraft Museum, Sydney, Australia. Ex gate guardian at RAF Scampton	Airworthy - to taxiing condition only. Fully restored
	-	NX622	Mk VII	repainted in the identification of a particular aircraft of RAF 463 squadron achieving the impressive total of 93 raids, JO-D (D-Dog)	RAAFA Aviation Heritage Collection Museum, Bull Creek, Perth, Western Australia Ex French Aeronavale Air Force as WU-16 and was delivered June 1952.	Static - public display
	-	NX664 French FAA No WU21	Mk VII	original wartime configuration. See photos.	Ailes Anciennes-Le Bourget, Musee de l'Air et de l'Espace, Le Bourget, France. See also website http://www.seishin.fr/~ailes_anciennes/sommaire.htm Former derelict aircraft at Wallis island (Pacific islands) 1983. Ex French Aeronavale Air Force as WU-21 and was delivered August 1952.	Static - complete aircraft. Forward fuselage and cockpit restored, remainder of aircraft being restored 2000.
	-	NX665 French FAA no WU-13	Mk VII	painted in camouflage and markings to commemorate New Zealand aircrew who served with the RAF - being currently displayed as "PB457 SR-V" of 101 sqdn and "ND752 AA-O" of 75 Ssqdn. See Kiwiaircraftimages website virtual tour photos	Museum of Transport and Technology, MOTAT (NZ) Ex French Aeronavale Air Force as WU-13 and was delivered June 1952. See website Kiwiaircraft images "Avro 683 Lancaster (Memorial Lancaster -Auckland)	Static - on display
	-	PA474	Mk I	Marked in wartime colours as "PM-M". "Mickie the Moocher"	Royal Air Force Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire, England.	Airworthy
	-	R5868	Mk I	marked with Squadron codes PO-S "S" for Sugar 467 sdqn on fuselage sides with RAF serial R5868; inscription and bomb tally on port side of nose. See photo	Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon, London, England. Ex RAF 83 Squadron (OL-Q), 467 Squadron (PO-S), Aircraft completed 136 operational sorties.	Static - display
	-	W4783 A66-2	Mk I	Marked in wartime configuration as "G" for George "AR-L" 460 sqdn. See photos	Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia Ex RAAF 460 Squadron (AR-G). Aircraft completed at least 90 Operations 1943-1944. See personal website of P. Dunn for wartime recollections of this aircraft.	Static - from March 1999 and currently undergoing restoration at the Treloar Conservation workshops.
	-	W4964	Mk I	Remnant mid section fuselage still marked with wartime code "WS-J". See photo	Newark Air Museum (Newark (Notts & Lincs) Air Museum Limited), Newark, England Ex 9 sdqn RAF. Aircraft completed 109 Operations	Static - Mid-fuselage section

Associations and reunions

RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight

RAF Coningby, Lincs,

Nanton Lancaster Society

P. O. Box 1051 Nanton, Alberta Canada T0L1R0

Phone: (403) 646-2270

Fax: (403) 646-2214

E-mail: nanton@lexicom.ab.ca

Windsor Lancaster Group Canadian Historical aircraft association looks after FM212

FURTHER INFORMATION
Nanton Lancaster Society and Air Museum - The World's Surviving Lancasters	Detailed summaries of each of the World's Surviving Lancasters
Avro Lancaster bomber FM 159	Photos of surviving Lancasters in Canada and the rest of the world.
Toronto Aerospace Museum	List of Canadian Lancaster survivors
Airworthy Warbirds & Aircraft	Worldwide lists of selected Bombers, Fighters, Liaison, Trainers and Transport aircraft. The aim of this site is to build up a database with 'all' airworthy Warbirds and those being rebuilt to airworthy condition. Currently the site contains 773 different aircraft and 451 pictures of the aircraft.
Das Virtuelle Luftfahrtmuseum.	Details of surviving Lancasters in European Museums [in German].
	Sturtivant, R. & Burrow, M (1995) 'Fleet Air Arm Aircraft 1939 to 1945' Published by Air Britain (Historians) Ltd, 1995 ISBN: 085130 232 7

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