On July 25th, 1939, an odd-looking aircraft took off on its maiden flight from Manchester Ringway aerodrome, England, with Avro Chief Test Pilot Sam Brown at the controls. It sported three fins, of ...

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One of Britain's most celebrated World War Two planes will be performing in public again this weekend. The Avro Lancaster PA474 had been grounded for maintenance but has now been signed off to fly ...

For close to half a century in Lancaster city, a venerable dining institution and a nightclub that served as an historic gathering place for the LGBT community operated at Orange and Water streets.

The crew of an RAF bomber aircraft which crashed into the Humber Estuary during World War Two have been honoured at a ceremony today. The Avro Lancaster set off on a routine training flight on 4 ...

The following image shows Avro Vulcan XH558 (carrying civil registration G-VLCN), the only airworthy bomber of a fleet of 134 Vulcan V bombers operated by the Royal Air Force from 1953 until 1984.

One of only two Lancaster bombers still flying has landed at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire after undergoing an almost year-long maintenance programme. Crowds were there to witness the aircraft, built ...