Avro Lancaster B.I

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The Avro Lancaster was Britain's most successful heavy bomber of World War II, dominating RAF Bomber Command operations from 1942 to 1945. First flown on January 9, 1941, it was a mid-wing four-engine monoplane powered by Rolls-Royce Merlin engines that could carry up to 22,000 pounds of bombs in its capacious fuselage. With a wingspan of 102 feet and length of 69 feet, the Lancaster delivered 608,612 tons of ordnance across 156,000 sorties. The aircraft was manufactured by A.V. Roe and Company along with consortium partners.