Canberra to VAC

wls3 · **Posted:** Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:12 pm

The Valiant Air Command in Titusville Florida has acquired the abandon Canberra
that was sitting at the Melbourne FL airport.

This Canberra is reported to have been operated by the Royal Navy, Royal Air
Force, U. S. Air Force and several U. S. research corporations
(now insolvent).

Legal ownership was finally secured in November.
Disassembly and transportation to the museum is next.

Bill

cooper9411 · **Posted:** Sun Dec 18, 2011 12:04 am

Who is handling the disassembly and transport?

JDK · **Posted:** Sun Dec 18, 2011 1:30 am

Thanks Bill! With the serial number, the British service can be tracked - can't read it off the image from here.

I'm guessing WJ574 from this website showing an active nose number 844, where the scheme, inc. the Target Tug (TT) stripes are obvious.
http://www.airshowspast.com/yeovilton-days.html

Regards,

Pogmusic · **Posted:** Sun Dec 18, 2011 6:20 am

A flyer or sitter?

JDK · **Posted:** Sun Dec 18, 2011 7:25 am

More here: http://www.bywat.co.uk/wj574.html

Matt Sharkey · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 2:27 pm **Posts:** 223

A sitter, it has not flown in 6-8 years

peter · **Posted:** Sun Dec 18, 2011 10:52 am

That is great news, always thought she looked a bit sad...

Pogmusic · **Posted:** Mon Dec 19, 2011 6:02 am

Too bad that it'll be static. I remember when I was a wee lad watching the B-57G flying around Eglin AFB during its evaluation.

JDK · **Posted:** Mon Dec 19, 2011 6:33 am

Very few Canberras likely to fly again, and very, very few flying. Are there any airworthy in the UK currently?

Fouga23 · **Posted:** Mon Dec 19, 2011 7:24 am

JDK wrote:

Very few Canberras likely to fly again, and very, very few flying. Are there any airworthy in the UK currently?

Not currently

Wildchild · **Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2012 11:34 am

Any news on how the move is going? or how it went?

wls3 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2012 1:44 pm

I was at the museum yesterday and it's sitting in several sections.
I'll try to get pictures next time there and any news about it.

There were some nice photos of the move on here a couple weeks ago.

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=44618

Wildchild · **Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2012 4:17 pm

Cool! Do you know if there was another one in bare aluminium at the airport, accross from the Huey's?

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