2025 Lincs. Italian Motorcycle Festival, Saturday 16th August.

If there's enough interest, we can arrange a photo opportunity for Laverda owners to park their motorcycles in front of the Avro Lancaster. This would take place around midday.

To book a place on the photo opportunity, please email chris.jessop @ ukbuellgroup.co.uk
 
Hello Chris, thanks for the reply. I have other pics of Lancaster KB726 that I can post, but I just wanted to make sure that I didn't hi-jack your thread. I'm also not sure how tight the forum is on posting marque's made outside of Breganze :)

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Actually just finished having the RGS paint corrected and ceramic coated. The Ducati is my father's and it will likely get the same later this fall. I also had my street tracker tank done as well, just to give you an idea of what it looks like on black paint.

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That must have been a very memorable day! Thanks for posting.

The Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre Lancaster 'Just Jane' NX611 is currently undergoing a return to flight restoration. Hopefully, it will be able to fly again in 2028/2029.
 
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That must have been a very memorable day! Thanks for posting.

The Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre Lancaster 'Just Jane' NX611 is currently undergoing a return to flight restoration. Hopefully, it will be able to fly again in 2028/2029.
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I've been following the restoration of NX611 on YouTube for a while now, fantastic progress being made.

Nanton Alberta also has a Lancaster, FM159, that is "run up" capable but my understanding is that there is no plan to make it airworthy; I'm not even sure if the air frame is capable.

I just happened to be at the Hamilton airport in February of 1979 when KB726 first arrived. The fuselage was lifted in via Chinook Helicopter from Goderich Ontario and each wing was sitting on a tractor trailer parked along Glancaster Road right in front of the hanger entrance.

I was 10 at the time and followed the restoration with visits to the hanger at least once a year. At the time there was an Chance Vought F4U Corsair and Cliff Robertson's Spitfire was also housed in Hamiton. My understanding is the the Corsair was sold in order to fund the Lancaster restoration and it was just shear luck that the Lancaster wasn't lost to a hanger fire in 1993. Unfortunately that fire claimed one of Robertson's Spitfires and if I recall correctly a Hurricane airframe awaiting restoration was lost as well.

My family connection to the Lancaster is through my Grandfather's. Both were on Lancaster's in WWII serving in the RCAF in Squadrons 418 & 419.

Cheers
 
One of the saddest documentaries I ever saw was about a WW2 bomber recovery attempt out of the Ice in Greenland, but I couldn't remember what type of plane it was, so I googled it. It was a B-29 Superfortress. Crazy story with an even crazier ending.



















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No, it wasn't a Lancaster bomber, but the B-29 Superfortress "Kee Bird" that crashed in Greenland in 1947, was recovered in the 1990s, and subsequently caught fire and was destroyed during the restoration attempt. The event involved attempts to restore the WWII-era bomber, which was partially buried in ice for decades, before the catastrophic fire ended the e
 
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One of the saddest documentaries I ever saw was about a WW2 bomber recovery attempt out of the Ice in Greenland, but I couldn't remember what type of plane it was, so I googled it. It was a B-29 Superfortress. Crazy story with an even crazier ending.



















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No, it wasn't a Lancaster bomber, but the B-29 Superfortress "Kee Bird" that crashed in Greenland in 1947, was recovered in the 1990s, and subsequently caught fire and was destroyed during the restoration attempt. The event involved attempts to restore the WWII-era bomber, which was partially buried in ice for decades, before the catastrophic fire ended the e
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Hi Vince, I seem to recall a book that I have somewhere where a P38 was retrieved from under a significant amount of ice in Greenland...... Hundreds of feet perhaps. I think they alluded to a Superfortress lost in Greenland as well, that must have been the one.

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The doco is nuts, it was there for years, and the only extraction was to rebuild the engines, build a strip and fly it out of the wilderness. Really expensive with a hard deadline. Just a full-blown shit show with an ending that was horrible. It's worth a watch.
 
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The doco is nuts, it was there for years, and the only extraction was to rebuild the engines, build a strip and fly it out of the wilderness. Really expensive with a hard deadline. Just a full-blown shit show with an ending that was horrible. It's worth a watch.
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Cheers, I'll check it out.
 
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