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By: - 26th March 2018 at 01:09 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Data plates
Data plates
By: - 27th March 2018 at 01:24 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
100% lanc AC type 683 on the plate proves it..
By: - 29th March 2018 at 09:35 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
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By: - 16th May 2018 at 09:02 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Also potentially available for swapping are 9 incendiary containers, can be re-purposed for dropping candy bars from a Lancaster. Ailerons and containers can be professionally packed and sent, at cost of end user. Swapping for Mosquito parts.
By: - 29th May 2018 at 09:16 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Possibly they have origin of French Maritime lancs? NX611 served some time out there and was at Queensland for a while before she returned to Biggin, possibly spares of hers?
By: - 29th May 2018 at 11:11 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Would love a SBC for our Museum - depending on value of swap -are they in Oz? Any idea of shipping costs to the UK! ULP!
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By: - 28th June 2018 at 12:40 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Swapsies not buysies - metal for metal. Affordable surface shipping is easy to fix both ways - c'mon folks, whatchya got? SBCs went on everything, great firestarters !
Mosquito bits, Merlin bits, Hamilton Standard 23EX-6519 bits, interwar steel strip aeroplane bits, interwar engine bits all good for a swap.
I will even settle for a Napier Dagger engine, without warranty.
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By: powerandpassion - 26th March 2018 at 01:08 - Edited 2nd October 2019 at 11:40
These were found in Australia, salvaged by a farmer who may have been thinking about building a very big windmill. I would be grateful if any Lancastrian could identify likely aircraft series they may have been fitted to, based on the serial numbers. There was only one 'official' Lancaster in Australia, 'Q for Queenie' A66-1, which was scrapped postwar. I understand BOAC Lancastrians served with Qantas in the immediate postwar, but do not know what happened to these. It is unusual to find Lancaster structural components in Australia and there are some remains of camo scheme on the fabric of one of the ailerons, as well as dark green on one of the nav light housings. I wonder if these were spares from 'converted to components' Lancasters sent postwar from the UK to support Lancastrian operations? Happy to swap these for Mosquito parts.