title: List of Avro Lancaster operators
text: # 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
  