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Lancaster/KB889

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Serial #: KB889
Construction #: ?
Civil Registration:
  G-LANC
   Model(s):
  Lancaster B Mk. X
  Lancaster Mk. 10 (MR)
  Victory
Name: None
Status: Display
Last info: 2002
History:
Delivered to UK, March 1945, returned to Canada for RCAF, June 1945.
Delivered to RCAF as KB889.
- BOC: July 6, 1945.
- SOC: May 21, 1965.
Age Of Flight Museum, Niagara Falls, Ontario, 1965-1970.
Ken Short/The Lancaster Club, Oshawa, Ontario, 1970-1984.
- Barged from Niagara Falls, 1971.
- Open Storage.
Doug Arnold/Warbirds Of GB Ltd, Blackbushe, 1984.
- Shipped from Canada to UK, 1984.
- Stored dismantled.
Doug Arnold/Warbirds Of GB Ltd, Bitteswell, Jan. 31, 1985-1986.
- Registered as G-LANC.
Imperial War Museum, Duxford, May 14, 1986-2002.
- Arrived disassembled.
- Restored for static display, 1986-1994.
- Displayed as RAF/KB889/NA-I as of Nov. 1, 1994.
Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
 Photo Source(s):
Tony Chambers Photography
Eric Dumigan Photography, http://www.airic.ca, 2004

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