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The Canadian Warplane Museum’s Avro Lancaster bomber was escorted back to Vintage Wings of Canada at the Gatineau Airport on Saturday, Sept. 27, making a brief stop on its way back from a remarkable summer tour in the U.K.

This is the last airworthy Lancaster bomber in Canada, a four-engined plane from the Second World War that had been expected to landat 1 p.m. after making a 3,8000-kilometre flight from Keflavik, Iceland. Unforeseen circumstances pushed the anticipated arrival time back to about 4 p.m.

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The plane was escorted by another Second World War vintage aircraft, a P-51 Mustang flown by Michael Potter, founder of Vintage Wings Canada.

The bomber toured the United Kingdom this summer with the world’s only other flying Lancaster, property of the Royal Air Forces’ Battle of Britain Memorial Trust.