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    Airframe Family: Avro 683 Lancaster
    Latest Model:Lancaster B.X
    Last Military Serial:KB976 {2} RCAF
    Compressed ID:Victory Aircraft Lancaster B.X sn K...
    Latest Owner or Location:Brooklands Museum, Brooklands Airport (formerly), Weybridge, Surrey, England

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    Constructed as a Lancaster B.X by Victory Aircraft.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n KB976 {2}.
    For a complete history of Lancaster s/n KB976 view the history of KB976 {1}.

    Circa 1987

    To Brooklands Museum, Brooklands Airport (formerly), Weybridge, Surrey, England.
    Only the nose section survives here.
    View the Location Dossier

    Peter Whitfield reports: This display utilizes the original bomb aimer nose section from KB976 with a new build cockpit and fuselage. It is hoped to complete the interior using as much original Lancaster parts and equipment as time goes by.

    9 November 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo of KB976 at Brooklands Museum, Weybridge

    9 November 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo of KB976 at Brooklands Museum, Weybridge

    9 November 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo of KB976 at Brooklands Museum, Weybridge

    9 November 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo of KB976 at Brooklands Museum, Weybridge

    9 November 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo of KB976 at Brooklands Museum, Weybridge

    November 2019

    Transported by ship.
    Noted at Harwich docks for onward transportation to Russia.


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