1961 Royal Australian Air Force 1963 Royal Air Force 1967 Argentine Air Force
Status
Retired
Primary users
Royal Air Force Argentine Air Force Royal Australian Air Force
Number built
604[1]
Developed from
Avro Lancaster
Developed into
Avro Shackleton Avro Tudor
The Avro Type 694 Lincoln is a British four-engined heavy bomber, which first flew on 9 June 1944. Developed from the Avro Lancaster, the first Lincoln variants were initially known as the Lancaster IV and V; these were renamed Lincoln I and II. It was the 2nd last piston-engined bomber operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF).
The Lincoln attained operational status in August 1945. It had been initially assigned to units of the Tiger Force, a Commonwealth heavy bomber force which had been intended to play a role in the Japan campaign in the closing stages of the Second World War, but the war ended before the Lincoln could participate. Production of the type proceeded and the type was adopted in quantity, complementing and progressively replacing the Lancaster in RAF service during the late 1940s.
The Lincoln was deployed on operations during the 1950s. RAF squadrons equipped with the type fought against guerrilla fighters during the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya; the RAF and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) also operated the Lincoln during the Malayan Emergency. The type also saw significant peacetime service with the RAF, RAAF and the Argentine Air Force. Lincolns were also operated in civil aviation, including use as aerial test beds for aero-engine research.
In RAF service, the Lincoln was replaced by a new generation of bombers using jet propulsion. In 1967, the last Lincoln bombers in Argentinian service were retired.
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(SAAF). It was developed by Avro from the AvroLincoln bomber, which itself had been a development of the famous wartime Avro Lancaster bomber. The Shackleton...
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designing the Avro Lancaster bomber, its follow-up AvroLincoln and preliminary designs of the Avro Vulcan V-bomber. He also converted the Lincoln into the...
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only to be strafed and killed by one of the Soviet MiG 15s in the 1953 AvroLincoln shootdown incident. From the start of the Vietnam War, there were many...
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List of accidents and incidents involving the AvroLincoln four-engined heavy-bomber and later used for signals intelligence, radar research and as an-engine...
Refuelling Limited to be used as a pilotless drone. Flight Refuelling used an AvroLincoln instead and PA474 was then transferred to the College of Aeronautics...
was run in October 1949. The prototype was installed in the nose of an AvroLincoln heavy bomber for testing: it first flew in 1950 and appeared at the Farnborough...
used a wide mixture of aircraft to attack MNLA positions: from the new AvroLincoln heavy bomber to Short Sunderland flying boats. Jets were used in the...
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retired the Halifax, the type being succeeded as a strategic bomber by the AvroLincoln, an advanced derivative of the Lancaster. During the post-war years,...
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