The Lancaster runs out along the hard standing here prior to its taxi runs on the main airfield. It is possible for a fee to ride in the aircraft on these runs, including in the three (somewhat cramped) gun turrets.

This particular aircraft never saw operational service with the RAF, being delivered right at the end of WW2. It was sold as part of a batch to the French Navy, before returning to the UK for preservation. Between 1974 and 1987 it was the gate guard at RAF Scampton, a few miles north of Lincoln on the A15, and home over the years of several bomber squadrons with aircraft from the Lancaster to the Vulcan. This was the airfield from which 617 Squadron conducted the May 1943 raid on the Ruhr dams. In 1987 the aircraft was brought here by the Panton brothers, who were in process of setting up this museum in honour of their third brother who had lost his life in the war flying in Bomber Command.

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Make:	Canon
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