Friday, 8 August 2014 saw the culmination of a plan months in the making as the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum’s (CWHM) Avro Lancaster Mk.X KB726 (C-GVRA) safely completed its 3,700 mile trip to the UK, arriving at RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire, to begin a one-off month-long tour of Great Britain. Elliott Marsh previews the ‘Lanc’ season’, with exclusive images from the aircraft’s arrival courtesy of Karl Drage and Dave Gledhill.
The CWHM Lancaster’s near 4,000 mile journey to the UK took it from its Hamilton, Ontario base on Tuesday, 5 August, via Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada, and Keflavik, Iceland, prior to its arrival at RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire, UK, on Friday, 8 August. Supporting the Lancaster for the initial leg of its flight was the CWHM’s B-25 Mitchell.
Sadly, the planned formation flypast of the Canadian Lancaster, the Red Arrows and the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight’s (RAF BBMF) Lancaster, Spitfire and Hurricane was cancelled due to poor weather, with the Lancaster instead arriving straight into landing at RAF Coningsby at around 1400. It was greeted on the ground by over 100 RAF Bomber Command veterans, to whom this trip means so much, and hundreds of spectators lining the fence to greet the Canadians at the culmination of their transatlantic flight.
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