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Avro Lancaster Mk 1

Serial No: LM 227

Squadron Code: UL

Call sign: I – Item2

Third production batch of 350 airframes built by Sir W.G. Armstrong Whitworth
Aircraft Limited, Whitley, Coventry.

This batch being the third part of Contract no. 239/SAS/C4 (C).

Deliveries commenced in November 1943 with the contract completed by August
1944.

The Whitley factory completed on average ten airframes per week.

LM 227 completed 100 operations with 576 Squadron.

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Damaged by cannon fire from a German JU 88 on the 23 February 1945 whilst on
operations to Pforzheim piloted by Flying Officer B.H. O’Neill, the Lancaster was
categorized Ac and repaired at Fiskertons B1 hangar by the on-site AVRO repair
crews detached from the nearby AVRO repair facility at Braicebridge Heath next to
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RAF Waddington. The Lancaster was back on charge by the 8 March 1945.
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The Lancaster’s 100 operation was to Rotterdam as part of Operation Manna on
the 8 May1945. The Lancaster being flown by Flying Officer Simpson.
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LM 227 was struck off Squadron strength on the 11 October 1945 and sent to a
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43 Group Maintenance Unit and Categorised E on the 16 October 1945. This
Squadron Centurion was then sent to the scrap yard to be melted down.