List of Avro Lancaster operators
# List of Avro Lancaster operators

The following are operators of the Avro Lancaster:

## Military operators

### Argentina

**Argentine Air Force**

From May 1948 to August 1949 the Argentine Air Force received 15 Lancasters (registered B-031 to B-045) previously operated by RAF.

### Australia

**Royal Australian Air Force**

* No. 460 Squadron RAAF
* No. 463 Squadron RAAF
* No. 467 Squadron RAAF

### Canada

**Royal Canadian Air Force**

* No. 6 Group RCAF (Wartime to 1945)
   * 405 Squadron
   * 408 Squadron
   * 419 Squadron
   * 420 Squadron
   * 424 Squadron
   * 425 Squadron
   * 426 Squadron
   * 427 Squadron
   * 428 Squadron
   * 429 Squadron
   * 431 Squadron
   * 432 Squadron
   * 433 Squadron
   * 434 Squadron
* 10 Group/Maritime Air Command(Post 1947)
   * 103 Rescue Unit
   * 2 Maritime (M) Operational Training Unit
   * 404 Maritime Reconnaissance/Patrol Squadron
   * 405 Maritime Reconnaissance/Patrol Squadron
   * 407 Maritime Reconnaissance/Patrol Squadron
* CFB Rockcliffe(Postwar)
   * 408 Aerial Photography/Arctic Reconnaissance Squadron
   * 413 Aerial Photography Squadron

### France

**Aeronavale – 54 transferred from the Royal Australian Air Force beginning in 1952**

* Escadrille 5S
* Escadrille 9S
* Escadrille 10S
* Escadrille 55S
* Escadrille 56S

### Poland

**Polish Air Forces on exile in Great Britain**

* No. 300 Polish Bomber Squadron "Ziemi Mazowieckiej"

### Soviet Union

**Soviet Naval Aviation**

Soviets were able to repair two of six Avro Lancasters which made forced landings near Yagodnik airfield, near Arkhangelsk during attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz. Both ex-617 Squadron Avro Lancasters were operated briefly as transports and long range reconnaissance aircraft before being retired due to lack of spare parts.

### Sweden

**Swedish Air Force**

* Försökscentralen (Swedish Test Establishment) at Malmen near Linköping received one Lancaster I (ex-RAF RA805) designated Tp 80 and the SwAF/n 80001. Aircraft was modified by Avro company for jet engine testbed duties and delivered from UK in May 1951. The only Swedish Lancaster crashed in 1956.

### United Kingdom

**Royal Air Force**

* No. 7 Squadron RAF
* No. 9 Squadron RAF
* No. 12 Squadron RAF
* No. 15 Squadron RAF
* No. 18 Squadron RAF
* No. 20 Squadron RAF
* No. 35 Squadron RAF
* No. 37 Squadron RAF
* No. 38 Squadron RAF
* No. 40 Squadron RAF
* No. 44 Squadron RAF
* No. 49 Squadron RAF
* No. 50 Squadron RAF
* No. 57 Squadron RAF
* No. 61 Squadron RAF
* No. 70 Squadron RAF
* No. 75 Squadron RAF
* No. 82 Squadron RAF
* No. 83 Squadron RAF
* No. 90 Squadron RAF
* No. 97 Squadron RAF
* No. 100 Squadron RAF
* No. 101 Squadron RAF
* No. 103 Squadron RAF
* No. 104 Squadron RAF
* No. 106 Squadron RAF
* No. 109 Squadron RAF
* No. 115 Squadron RAF
* No. 120 Squadron RAF
* No. 138 Squadron RAF
* No. 148 Squadron RAF
* No. 149 Squadron RAF
* No. 150 Squadron RAF
* No. 153 Squadron RAF
* No. 156 Squadron RAF
* No. 160 Squadron RAF
* No. 166 Squadron RAF
* No. 170 Squadron RAF
* No. 178 Squadron RAF
* No. 179 Squadron RAF
* No. 186 Squadron RAF
* No. 189 Squadron RAF
* No. 195 Squadron RAF
* No. 203 Squadron RAF
* No. 207 Squadron RAF
* No. 210 Squadron RAF
* No. 214 Squadron RAF
* No. 218 Squadron RAF
* No. 224 Squadron RAF
* No. 227 Squadron RAF
* No. 231 Squadron RAF
* No. 279 Squadron RAF
* No. 514 Squadron RAF
* No. 541 Squadron RAF
* No. 550 Squadron RAF
* No. 576 Squadron RAF
* No. 582 Squadron RAF
* No. 617 Squadron RAF
* No. 619 Squadron RAF
* No. 621 Squadron RAF
* No. 622 Squadron RAF
* No. 625 Squadron RAF
* No. 626 Squadron RAF
* No. 630 Squadron RAF
* No. 635 Squadron RAF
* No. 683 Squadron RAF
* No. 1651 Heavy Conversion Unit RAF
* No. 1653 Heavy Conversion Unit RAF
* No. 1654 Heavy Conversion Unit RAF
* No. 1656 Heavy Conversion Unit RAF
* No. 1657 Heavy Conversion Unit RAF
* No. 1659 Heavy Conversion Unit RAF
* No. 1660 Heavy Conversion Unit RAF
* No. 1661 Heavy Conversion Unit RAF
* No. 1662 Heavy Conversion Unit RAF
* No. 1664 Heavy Conversion Unit RAF
* No. 1665 Heavy Conversion Unit RAF
* No. 1666 Heavy Conversion Unit RAF
* No. 1667 Heavy Conversion Unit RAF
* No. 1668 Heavy Conversion Unit RAF
* No. 1678 Heavy Conversion Unit RAF
* No. 1 Lancaster Finishing School RAF
* No. 3 Lancaster Finishing School RAF
* No. 5 Lancaster Finishing School RAF
* No. 6 Lancaster Finishing School RAF
* No. 6 Operational Training Unit RAF
* No. 230 Operational Conversion Unit RAF
* No. 236 Operational Conversion Unit RAF

**Fleet Air Arm**

* 780 Naval Air Squadron

## Civil operators

### Argentina

* Flota Aérea Mercante Argentina

### Canada

* Spartan Air Services
* Trans-Canada Air Lines
* World Wide Airways

### United Kingdom

* British European Airways
* British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC)
* British South American Airways
* Flight Refuelling Limited
* Skyways Limited
