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Old 30-04-14, 19:52
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Default Edmundston needs a home for it's Lancaster

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Anyone?

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/edmundston...153215373.html

Bueller? Bueller?

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Old 30-04-14, 20:47
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I think the estimate of a half million dollars to move it is a little far-fetched.
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Old 30-04-14, 21:43
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I walked through this aircraft about 20 years ago and though that it looked like it was just parked. the shocking bit is thaat it wasn't vandalized - instruments, radios,etc were all just there....


Often wondered why it was not "gathered" with the Lanc inHamilton as a future project, or spares.
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Old 01-05-14, 03:19
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Hi

I've heard stories that the town or someone went through a lot of trouble to get it there and wouldn't let it go. Maybe that's changed.

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...Lancaster KB882 was honourably retired at Dunnville, Ontario. On May 1st, 1964, the Crown Assets Disposal Corporation accepted a monetary offer from the City of Edmundston, NB for the purchase of the aircraft. Shortly after it was flown from DND 6 Repair Depot, Trenton, Ontario to Fredericton, N.B. where it waited for the Edmundston site to be completed. On July 14, 1964, Captain Joseph (Pepi) DiGiacinto, pilot; Flight Sgt Derek Miller, co-pilot; Gerry Flemming, radio operator; Captain Keith Wyatt, navigator and flight Engineer, Jim Cochrane brought KB882 in from her final flight. The crew touched down at the Edmundston Municipal Airport where she was mounted on a pedestal at St Jacques Airport in its last operational colours, (for a short while had been seen in wartime camouflage as 'NA-R' (Rabbit Stew)...
http://www.lancaster-archive.com/lanc_surv_kb882.htm

I've stopped and looked her over many times over my almost 50 years. Dad looooved to tow a Family and a Camping Trailer around the entire country when we were growing up....apparently this built our character!!

I agree that $500K is a bit much to move it.

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Old 01-05-14, 09:05
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Default Edmundston, N.B. Lancaster KB882

It will be a shame to see it go but KB882 (like any historic aircraft) deserves a better fate than sitting outside for 50 years.

The March/April 2003 Newsletter of the Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum has an extensive article on Canadian Lancasters.

http://atlanticcanadaaviationmuseum....01/mar2003.pdf

See pages 10-16 for the interesting story and pictures of the delivery of KB882 to Edmundston in July of 1964.


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Old 01-05-14, 12:10
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Modification to Mk.,10P inlcuded 40 inch extension to the nose section to accommodate the AN/APS-42 navigation/weather radar, a can containing the UPD-501 passive intercept radar in the rear fuselage, an extensive array of antennas for radio.


"The bomb bay was fitted with two long-range fuel tanks and a pannier for baggage and spares."
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Old 01-05-14, 12:58
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I think the estimate of a half million dollars to move it is a little far-fetched.
Not half as far-fetched as this statement: "This plane put an end to World War Two basically."
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Hi

There may be an offer to save her.....apparently for parts though!:

http://news.ca.msn.com/local/newbrun...dsor-ont-group

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The transport cost does seem extraordinary.
I would think, that if an organization had all their ducks lined up, that the may be a company or two that would offer the transport as an act of good faith or perhaps to score some brownie points/advertising etc.
Moving something and having a place to put it or a plan to maintain it are very different things.
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Old 19-03-15, 00:25
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Default New hope for KB-822

An aircraft engineer inspector had only given the Lanc another 5 years of exposure before it fell apart and became so much scrap... (I forgot to mention the site is powered by aging guinea pigs and garage sale equipment so it takes a while to open...budget cuts)

http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2015/03/18/u...er-to-survive/
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Old 19-03-15, 01:21
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Default Lancaster KB-882 Edmundston, NB

Marc,

This is very good news.

I drive by it several times a year so I will be sad to see it gone but it does need to be protected which was not happening there.

There is an earlier thread on this subject here:

http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...880#post194880

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Old 19-03-15, 01:38
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Brian, where is she exactly? Maybe I can check her out before the move.
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Old 19-03-15, 01:54
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Hi Chris,

KB882 is at the Edmundston, NB airport, located right on the Quebec / New Brunswick border. This is where Quebec Route 185 becomes Route 2 in NB.

Last year the new highway was realigned to the west a bit but you can easily find your way over to the airport.

Check it out before it leaves.

Brian

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Old 19-03-15, 02:10
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Probably not going anwhere immediately..for one thing the maritimes are experiencing a blizzard right now after a year of record snowfall..about the 17th blizzard this season.. I think it will be late spring/summer before anything happens.
I am personally very glad it's going to the Alberta Aviation Museum..where it will be indoors and get a good restoration...especially since in just a few more years it would have collapsed -according to the expert..and the nose section broken off
Sad thing is, this was flying when parked..with the right money and care over the years it could have been the third flying example left...but even in the 1960s I guess not that many people were thinking that these war relics should -or were worthy- of restoration/preservation.
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