Avro Lincoln Mk II

This aircraft was built at Baginton, Conventry, at the end of the Second World War. It served with the Bomber Command Bombing School until September 1960. It then carried out electronic warfare and countermeasures trials and training with the Central Signals Establishment until March 1963 – and was one of the last Lincolns to be operated by the RAF.

The Avro Lincoln was essentially an upgraded and enlarged Lancaster, which entered service just after the end of the War. While an improvement on the Lancaster, the Lincoln was outpaced in almost every regard by the new jet aircraft of the 1950s, such as the Canberra and the V-bombers.