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    Airframe Family: Avro 683 Lancaster
    Latest Model:Lancaster B.I(FE)
    Last Military Serial:TW911 RAF
    Compressed ID:Avro Lancaster B.I(FE) sn TW911 RAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Flying Heritage and Combat Armor Museum, Paine Field, Everett, Washington

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Lancaster B.I(FE).
    Built with the intended of use by Tiger Force (Pacific Theater).

    7 March 1946

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n TW911.

    Converted for use as a flying test bed for the Armstrong Siddeley Python Turboprop.

    Scrapped.
    Only the cockpit section remained and it was fitted to Lincoln RF342.

    The combination of the cockpit of Lancaster TW911 and the airframe of Lincoln RF342 served for a number of years with Napier 9 jet engines.

    To College, Aeronautics, Cranfield.

    The Lancaster/Lincoln combination was eventually retired by the college.

    Circa 1968

    To British Historic Aircraft Museum, Southend, UK.

    When the museum closed the airframe was auctioned off. It passed through the hands of numerous owners losing bits with each move. It is thought the nose section, the last surviving component of Lancaster TW911, was the first to be removed.

    January 2004

    To Wizzard Investments Ltd, Greenham Common.
    Only the nose section survived here.

    2008

    To Flying Heritage Collection/Paul Allen, Paine Field, Everett, WA.
    Only the cockpit section survives here.
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    1 July 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo - displayed in Paul Allens Warbirds - Flying Heritage Collection at Paine Field, Everett - This section is actually from Avro Lancaster TW911 and did form part of this Lincoln at some stage

    1 July 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo - displayed in Paul Allens Warbirds - Flying Heritage Collection at Paine Field, Everett - This section is actually from Avro Lancaster TW911 and did form part of this Lincoln at some stage

    1 July 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo - displayed in Paul Allens Warbirds - Flying Heritage Collection at Paine Field, Everett - This section is actually from Avro Lancaster TW911 and did form part of this Lincoln at some stage

    To Flying Heritage and Combat Armor Museum, Paine Field, Everett, WA.
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    8 October 2019


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Everett-Paine Field, Washington, U.S.A.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     Lancaster Archive
    Royal Air Force Museum
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
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