AVRO HERITAGE MUSEUM

AVRO LANCASTER: SOME FACTS AT A GLANCE

No. built: 7377
Cost to produce each one: £60,000
No. of separate items in each aircraft: 120,000
No. Assembled and test flown at Woodford: 4,040
Wingspan: 102 ft.
Length: 69 ft.
Weight when empty: 16.5 tons
Weight fully loaded: 30 tons
Maximum range: 2,500 miles
Usual service ceiling: 23,000 ft.
Fuel capacity: 2,154 gallons
No. operations: 156,000
No. lost: over 4,000, of which 3,349 were on operations
No. of crew members: 7

Avro Lancasters still in existence:

PA474: Airworthy with the BBMF, Coningsby, England.
FM213: Airworthy with the Canadian Warplane Heritage.
NX611: 'Just Jane', taxiable, Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre, East Kirkby.
R5868: 'S-Sugar', RAF Museum, Hendon.
KB889: Imperial War Museum, Duxford.
FM104: British Columbia Aviation Museum, Sidney, Canada.
FM136: The Hangar Flight Museum, Calgary, Canada.
FM159: Bomber Command Museum of Canada, Nanton, Alberta.
FM212: Canadian Historical Aircraft Association, Windsor, Ontario.
KB839: Greenwood Military Aviation Museum, Nova Scotia, Canada.
KB882: National Air Force Museum of Canada, Trenton, Ontario.
KB944: Canada Aviation & Space Museum, Ottawa.
KB976: Fantasy of Flight, Polk City, USA.
W7483: Australian War Memorial, Canberra.
NX622: Aviation Heritage Museum, Bull Creek, Australia.
NX665: Museum of Transport & Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
NX664: Musee de l'air et l'espace, Paris, France.