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1/144 CORGI AVRO LANCASTER MK-X-PP (CF-CNA) TRANS-CANADA AIRLINES 1943-1947

1/144 CORGI AVRO LANCASTER MK-X-PP (CF-CNA) TRANS-CANADA AIRLINES 1943-1947

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1/144 CORGI AVRO LANCASTER MK-X-PP (CF-CNA) TRANS-CANADA AIRLINES 1943-1947 WATCH THE YOU-TUBE VIDEOS.In 1943, Canada's Victory Aircraft converted a Lancaster X bomber for civil transport duties with Trans-Canada Airlines (TCA) (After the war Victory Aircraft was purchased by what became Avro Canada). This conversion was a success resulting in eight additional Lancaster Xs being converted. The "specials" were powered by Packard-built Merlin 38 engines and featured a lengthened, streamlined nose and tail cone. Range was increased by two 400 gal (1,818 L) Lancaster long-range fuel tanks fitted as standard in the bomb bay. These Lancastrians were used by TCA on its Montreal–Prestwick route.CF-CMW was on the Canadian Civil Aircraft Register as a Lancastrian in 1943. The XPP was the very first conversion of the Lancaster 'Mark X Passenger Plane'. I believe they made two of them. The prototype conversion was destroyed by fire during engine trials in June 1945, and the other was lost in the Atlantic in December 1944. TCA (or probably Canadair, in actual fact) then converted five others: CF-CMS, and CF-CMV to -CMZ, three of them were then sold in the UK. At this time the name Lancaster was probably used by the Canadians, since, strictly speaking, the term Lancastrian hadn't yet been devised. At around this time BOAC was having severe problems with their Avro Tudor aircraft. Avro (in the UK) took a look at the Canadian subsidiary's Lancaster conversions and decided they could use the XPP in the interim until the Tudor problems were remedied (they never were). So Avro went ahead and further enhanced the Canadian conversion, numbering 20 aircraft. QANTAS had a number of them (I flew in one of them.) At that time Avro's decided to give the aircraft a different design number, "691", and call it the Lancastrian." During the Second World War, Canada's Victory Aircraft (what later became Avro Canada) was responsible for the development of the Lancastrian, which was duly designated the XPP for Mark 10 Passenger Plane. Six were built for Trans Canada Airlines.

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