This January marks the 85th anniversary of a milestone in British aviation history: the maiden flight of the Avro Lancaster prototype. On January 9, 1941, the aircraft-then known as the Avro 683-made ...

The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum's Avro Lancaster MK. X completed an "epic adventure" across the Atlantic, landing in England and marking the end of airworthy Lancasters in the Americas. The ...

One of only two airworthy Lancaster bombers in the world which regularly flies from RAF ConingsbyDuring the Second World War, there were 49 airfields in Lincolnshire, more than any other county in ...

The following image shows Avro Vulcan XH558 (carrying civil registration G-VLCN), the only airworthy bomber of a fleet of 134 Vulcan V bombers operated by the Royal Air Force from 1953 until 1984.

After overnight repairs and last-minute runway switch, Canada's last airworthy Avro Lancaster bomber successfully took off from Hamilton this morning to embark on its journey to the U.K. The Second ...

As the strategic bombing offensive over Europe gathered momentum, the Lancaster bomber made a name for itself as one of the most successful night bombers Here are some inside stories of life aboard ...

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It was known as the workhorse of the RAF’s bomber corps and took the fight against Hitler into the heart of enemy territory. More than eight decades after it first took flight, the historian Dr Sarah ...