Tag: RAAFA

• French Lancaster – Part Four – The Flying Bribe

  

  I’ve been reading about the donation of WU 16 – a Lancaster patrol aircraft of the Aeronavale to Australia in 1962. The story is detailed elsewhere so do go google it up. It seems to have a number of amusing elements; requests from the local RAAFA for a time-expired Lancaster – refusal by the French…

  Dick Stein

  June 4, 2026

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, display, French aircraft, History, Model Airplane, Museums, Uncategorized

  Aeronavale, Lancaster, RAAFA