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A workforce of ten thousand completed 430 Mk X's
during the war, most of which were assigned to the squadrons of No. 6 Group, the
Canadian component of Bomber Command.
Canadian history records a seven man crew flew the first Canadian-built Lancaster across the Atlantic to England. On 4 September 1943, KB700 and crew departed Canada for the ferry flight to England. An eighth member of the crew was called “Bambi”, a small French poodle puppy, picked up in Canada by mid-upper gunner F/Sgt. R. K. Burgar. The crew had wished to name the first Canadian Lancaster “Bambi” but the Malton factory painted Nose Art and huge media event made that impossible. |
| This replica nose art was painted on Lancaster skin and donated by Clarence Simonsen to the Nose Creek Museum in Airdrie, Alberta. |
