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Lowest time Lancaster

Does anyone know which surviving lancaster bomber has the lowest number of hours on the airframe? I was reading an article in airforce magazine and it mentioned that Lancaster KB944 in Ottawa only has 122 hours total time on it! 😮

Now does anyone know the highest time lancaster survivor??
My guess would be a close tie between G George(W4783) in Australia and S Sugar(R5868) at Hendon

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By: Dave Homewood - 17th August 2004 at 21:26

I’d think the Motat Lanc must have fairly high hours, having patrolled the Pacific with the French up till the mid 1960’s – the same goes for their others that were retired at the same time I guess.

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By: topgun regect - 17th August 2004 at 19:25

What about PA474, shes done a lot of hours on the display circuit (ok its cheating as its not in the spirit of the question you asked 🙂 )

she only does 50-100 hours a year, she will have accrued most of her hours when she flew as a test bed at cranfield, interesting question though

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By: Manonthefence - 17th August 2004 at 16:17

What about PA474, shes done a lot of hours on the display circuit (ok its cheating as its not in the spirit of the question you asked 🙂 )

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