A/C SERIAL NO.R5868 SECTION 2B


AVRO LANCASTER B.Mk.1 R5868/7325M MUSEUM ACCESSION NUMBER 74/A/12
Built by Metropolitan-Vickers at its Mosley Road works, Manchester. After completion taken by road to A.V.Roe plant at Woodford. Part of a batch of 100 originally ordered as Manchesters in 1939 of which only the first 43 were built as such, the remaining 57, including R5868 being completed as Lancasters as part of contract No.982866, serial numbers R5768 -R5917, delivered between Mar 41 and Aug 42.

]23 April 45
Final operational flight, to Flensburg, flown by Flying Officer Laurie Baker. Photo at this time in Avro Lancaster - The Definitive Record (Holmes 1997) No bombs were dropped on this final mission due to thick 10/10 cloud. Flight time 5 hours 24 minutes. Bomb load 8 x 1000 lb, 6 x 500 lb. Shipping was the target on this occasion involving 59 Lancasters.

This was her 137th operational mission. having flown at least 795 operational
hours and dropped some 466 tons of bombs. The only RAF heavy bomber with more missions than this was No 103 Squadrons’ Lancaster Mk 111
ED888 ‘Mike Squared’ with 140. (137)

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Bump......coz she made me - it's an important history lesson !

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And now he's being told what to do.

The rot has set in, throw cushions and pot-pori next.

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And now he's being told what to do.

The rot has set in, throw cushions and pot-pori next.

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If you go to Hendon you can see "S Sugar" 137 missions