List of Avro Lancaster operators
The following are operators of the Avro Lancaster:
Military operators
- Argentine Air Force
In June 1947, the Argentine Air Force received 15 Lancasters (registered B-031 to B-045) previously operated by RAF.
- Royal Australian Air Force[1] - 130
- Royal Canadian Air Force[1]
- Royal Egyptian Air Force
- Aeronavale - 54 transferred from the Royal Australian Air Force beginning in 1952
- Escadrille 5S
- Escadrille 9S
- Escadrille 10S
- Escadrille 55S
- Escadrille 56S
- Royal New Zealand Air Force
- Polish Air Forces on exile in Great Britain
- Swedish Air Force
- Försökscentralen (Swedish Test Establishment) at Malmen near Linköping received one Lancaster I (ex-RAF RA805) designated Tp 80 and the SwAF/n 80001. Aircraft was modified by Avro company for jet engine testbed duties and delivered from UK in May 1951. The only Swedish Lancaster crashed in 1956.[4]
- Royal Air Force[5][1]
- Fleet Air Arm
- No. 780 Naval Air Squadron[6]
- Soviet Naval Aviation
Soviets were able to repair two of six Avro Lancasters which made forced landings near Yagodnik airfield, near Arkhangelsk during attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz. Both ex-617 Squadron Avro Lancasters were operated briefly as transports and long range reconnaissance aircraft before being retired due to lack of spare parts.[7]
Civil Operators
- Flota Aérea Mercante Argentina [8]
See also
Notes
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