Duxfords Lancaster

Taken at Duxford in the ‘Super Hanger’ as it was known then. 18th October 1988.

Scanned from a photo.

Brian

Peter , this was when first arrived, big plans were being undertaken to get her airworthy and charge 10 $ per flight!!! to pay for the cost. Volunteers were working on 889, but over time , interest and money waned, so was sold after a heritage battle, for a couple hundred thousand minus the engines! The best the group managed was to get it painted up in camoflage and moved onto the airfield itself, never ran at all. When I played in it I remember how empty it was, nothing in it, I do know alot of stuff was “liberated” of which I had ended up with some keepsakes from 889. When it was purchased from the Niagara falls museum for 1000$ the plans were to fly it to Oshawa, but had an insurance problem due to flying over populated areas, so dismantled and barged to Oshawa, apparently was improperly taken apart and set them back in their efforts to make her airworthy, but in the end Duxfords gain.

Great pics Darrell.

I always think of 889 as the one that got away and it could have been a flyer in this country.
Interesting to see her being dismantled, was this for her trip to the UK?

Here she is in her Oshawa home in the 1970s, a favourite playground for the future bolyman, used to “play” in it with the former owners son!

Correct Darrell

Duxfords lanc is KB889

Is that KB 889?

Doug Arnold put her up for sale and Duxford bought her with the help of a large grant.