Hamilton's Lancaster bomber arrived in Canada Friday evening. The plane landed in Goose Bay, Labrador, after taking off from Keflavik, Iceland, and making one unexpected stop in Greenland.
An update on the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum's Facebook page said the crew was looking forward to a rest before continuing on with the weekend's homecoming events.
The plane is expected to fly to Gatineau airport near Ottawa on Saturday, before its scheduled homecoming in Hamilton around noon on Sunday.
Some fans of the bomber snapped photos of the plane's Canadian landing on Friday.
The plane is homeward bound after a successful tour in the U.K. But it will also be carrying a hefty $180,000 bill for shipping back the engine it's been borrowing from a British company since one of its four engines shut down a few weeks ago.
The Lancaster was grounded in the U.K. after an engine was shut down mid-flight. Plumes of smoke billowed along the fuselage as it landed at Durham Tees Airport in northern England.
Repairs were done at the airport before the plane flew to Coningsby, 250 kilometres away. Hamilton's Lancaster rejoined the other airworthy Lancaster Bomber.
The last time Lancasters flew together was 50 years ago over Toronto, at RCAF Station Downsview. The RCAF flew a special formation of three of the bombers in April 1964 to mark their retirement from service.
Hamilton's Mynarski Memorial Avro Lancaster Mk X bomber was built at Victory Aircraft in Malton, Ont., in 1945. Used to train air crews and later for coastal patrols and search-and-rescue work, it was retired in 1963.
The museum bought it in 1977 for about $10,000. A team of volunteers led by Norm Etheridge spent 11 years restoring the bomber, and it returned to the air on Sept. 24, 1988.
"On the day of that first flight, we thought we'd get a couple of hundred people at the airfield to watch," says Mickeloff, spokesman for the museum. "About 20,000 showed up."
"Some people thought the Lancaster would never fly again, and when we made it happen, it changed our whole organization," said Al Mickeloff from Hamilton's warplane museum. "The Lancaster is the heart of the museum, and our volunteers do what it takes to keep it going."
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