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Let Let Let - Warplanes => Combat Warplanes => Topic started by: mfg495 on December 16, 2006, 06:32:14 AM

Title: RAF Canberrra Exports.
Post by: mfg495 on December 16, 2006, 06:32:14 AM

The Canberrra was exported to a number of countries, earning more that 85 million pounds for the UK. Countries in which this great aircraft went to are:

USA - B-57, RB-57
Australia - B.Mk20, T.Mk21
Venezuela - B(I).Mk82, B.Mk82, PR.Mk83, T.Mk84, B(I).88
France - B.Mk6
Ecuador - B.Mk6
Peru - B(I).Mk56, B(I).Mk68, B.Mk72, T.Mk74, B(I).Mk78
India - PR.Mk57, B(I).Mk58, T.Mk4, B(I).Mk66, PR.Mk67
New Zealand - B(I).Mk12, T.Mk13
Rhodesia Zimbabwe - B.Mk2, T.Mk4
Sweden - B.Mk2
South Africa - B(I).Mk12, T.Mk4
West Germany - B.Mk2
Ethiopia - B.Mk52
Argentina - B.Mk62, T.Mk64

Note:
B - Bomber, B(I) - interdictor/tactical bomber, PR - Photographic Reonnaissance, T - Trainer

Images below are of the following:

Argentina B.Mk62
USAF B-57
Indian Canberra
Venezulain B(I).Mk82

Title: Re: RAF Canberrra Exports.
Post by: No.1 on December 16, 2006, 08:52:42 AM

Nice info and never seen before version for Venezuela... :) :) Thank you mfg!!

Title: Re: RAF Canberrra Exports.
Post by: mfg495 on December 16, 2006, 05:22:44 PM

Thanks No.1

I have just posted on YouTube a video of a PR9 taking off from RAF Aldergrove, Belfast in 2004. It was in this ity that all the PR9 were bulit.

If you click the link  PR9 Video  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4uB3nom5aY#GU5U2spHI_4) it will take you to the right page.

Title: Re: RAF Canberrra Exports.
Post by: santynus on December 16, 2006, 06:17:39 PM

I just see your video about Camberra PR.9 is very interesting   :)
I have also seen other video on the camberra on you tube  :))

Title: Re: RAF Canberrra Exports.
Post by: mfg495 on December 16, 2006, 10:40:00 PM

Thank you Santynus.  :-ok

Title: Re: RAF Canberrra Exports.
Post by: mfg495 on December 28, 2006, 12:46:21 PM

Here's another version of the Canberra, not really an export  :))

XH132 was modified PR9 Canberra. However, she never flow in that role.

In the 1960's she was transferred to Short Brothers factory in Ireland and was modified as a specialised "Shorts SC.9" with the capability of carrying several different types of nose-mounted equipment for missile homing head trails.

Then on to De-Havilland Propellers where it spent a number of years as part of the Red Top guided missile trails programme.

She was then transferred to Hawker Siddeley Dynamics for a continuation of the trails before going on to the Radar Research Establishment (RRE) in 1972 for Sky Flash guided weapon homing-head development in 1972.

The nose section still exists today in Italy.

Title: Re: RAF Canberrra Exports.
Post by: mfg495 on December 28, 2006, 01:19:55 PM

Missed one country out of the exports

Chile - 3 PR9's

Title: Re: RAF Canberrra Exports.
Post by: No.1 on December 28, 2006, 01:52:47 PM

Greetings mfg :) :)

Title: Re: RAF Canberrra Exports.
Post by: No.1 on October 06, 2020, 09:38:11 AM

Preparation for the combat flight of the English Electric Canberra bomber of the Argentine air force during the war with the British for the Falkland Islands; ~ April-June 1982

In 1967, 10 bombers and 2 English Electric Canberra training aircraft were purchased from the British to equip the Argentine air force. During the conflict with great Britain, the Argentine air force was involved in 8 Canberra bombers. The bombers were deployed at the depths of Argentina, at the air base in Trelew. During the fighting, the aircraft made 54 sorties, of which 36 were for attacks on British ground forces. The Argentines lost 2 Canberra bombers: one shot down by fighter aircraft, the second by a ship's anti - aircraft missile system

Title: Re: RAF Canberrra Exports.
Post by: modellius on October 12, 2020, 05:15:15 PM

Great material, thanks for sharing !

Title: Re: RAF Canberrra Exports.
Post by: No.1 on October 12, 2020, 06:02:21 PM

You are welcome ;)