AlainDurand:
The Avro Lancaster is a British four-engined Second World War heavy bomber made initially by Avro for the Royal Air Force (RAF). It first saw active service in 1942,
AlainDurand:
The French navy used 54 Avro Lancasters (32 B I and 22 B VII) between 1951 and 1964.
AlainDurand:
The fourth Lancaster, WU 21 (NX664), survived mostly by luck.
AlainDurand:
She was delivered in August 1952 to the Flotille 11F at Lartigues, but went to Lann- Bihoué in March 1953 to join the newly formed 25F until her first overhaul in 1954.
AlainDurand:
On january 26th, 1963, she was sent in the Wallis island area to rescue a sick boy and do some mail drops,
AlainDurand:
The french navy decided not to salvage her, since the remaining Lancasters were to be soon replaced by P2V Neptunes, and she was to seat there in the open, for nearly 22 years before being rescued and brought back to France by Ailes Anciennes-Le Bourget.
AlainDurand:
The plane had not only suffered from the weather, but from the locals as well.
AlainDurand:
Boeing 727-22(F) N166FE was sitting on the cargo ramp at Madison/Wisconsin in August 1991
AlainDurand:
19 years later, and referred as "Bud", N166FE proudly sits on the museum's ramp
AlainDurand:
N166FE permanently shares the ramp with other retired airliners
AlainDurand:
N166FE did not fly in empty handed. Bud also brought along her GPU and towbar
AlainDurand:
Window contours betrays N166FE's previous life as a passenger aircraft
AlainDurand:
N166FE was the 227th 727 built out of 1,831 between 1963 and 1984. The wings proved instrumental to this success.
AlainDurand:
N166FE enlisted in the club of night hauler "Three-Holers"
AlainDurand:
N166FE then actively whitnessed the days when Federal Express became Fedex, just Fedex along with squadrons of fellow T-tailed Tigeresses
AlainDurand:
Boeing 747-128, F-BPVJ, msn 20541, cn 200, 1972
AlainDurand:
Boeing 747-128, F-BPVJ, msn 20541, cn 200, 1972
AlainDurand:
F-BPVJ, Boeing 747-128, 20541/200, 1972
AlainDurand:
Boeing 747-128, F-BPVJ, msn 20541, cn 200, 1972
AlainDurand:
Boeing 747-128, F-BPVJ, msn 20541, cn 200, 1972
AlainDurand:
Boeing 747-128, F-BPVJ, msn 20541, cn 200, 1972
AlainDurand:
Boeing 747-128, F-BPVJ, msn 20541, cn 200, 1972
AlainDurand:
Boeing 747-128, F-BPVJ, msn 20541, cn 200, 1972
AlainDurand:
Boeing 747-128, F-BPVJ, msn 20541, cn 200, 1972
AlainDurand:
Boeing 747-128, F-BPVJ, msn 20541, cn 200, 1972
AlainDurand:
Boeing 747-128, F-BPVJ, msn 20541, cn 200, 1972
AlainDurand:
Boeing 747-128, F-BPVJ, msn 20541, cn 200, 1972
AlainDurand:
Boeing 747-128, F-BPVJ, msn 20541, cn 200, 1972
AlainDurand:
Boeing 747-128, F-BPVJ, msn 20541, cn 200, 1972
AlainDurand:
Boeing 747-128, F-BPVJ, msn 20541, cn 200, 1972
