Avro Lancaster Mk.I - British Users part seven

The Avro Lancaster was also used as a testbed for the Metropolitan-Vickers F.2 turbojet engine, as well as for the Armstrong Siddeley Mamba, Rolls Royce Dart, Avro Canada Orenda and STAL Dovern turboprop and turbojet engines. It was replaced in the inmediate postwar by the Avro Lincoln which was, basically, a larger version of the Lancaster. The Lancaster also performed a role in anti-submarine war and air-sea rescue, replaced later in that role by the Avro Shackleton. Other secondary roles performed by the Lancaster, specially during the postwar, were aerial photo-reconnaissance and mapping and flying tanker for aerial refuelling. The last Lancaster in active service was retired in 1963, by the Royal Canadian Air Force.
The squadrons covered in the drawings are:

• No.166 Squadron: This aircraft replaced their Vickers Wellington medium bombers with the Avro Lancaster in September 1943. They performed both day and night raids against Germany from early 1945 until the end of the war (from September 1943 until early 1945 they were limited to night raids). It was disbanded at RAF Kirmington, in Lincolnshire, on 18th November 1945.
• No.207 Squadron: This squadron was also equipped with the Vickers Wellington until March 1942, when they were replaced by the Avro Lancaster. They took part in various night raids against Germany until the end of the war. They were based in various airfields all around Northern England as they were based in RAF Langar, in Nottinghamshire, RAF Spilsby in Lincolnshire where they were the first ones to inaugurate the bomber base, and RAF Bottesford, in Leicestershire. When the war in Europe ended, they were going to be part of the Tiger Air Force to keep on the strategic bombing campaign against Japan, but due to the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki the plans for the Tiger Air Force were dropped and, in November 1945 they were rebased to RAF Methwold, in Norfolk. Their Lancaster served until 1949 when, after being rebased to RAF Mildenhall, in Suffolk, they were replaced by the Avro Lincoln.

Sources:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Lancaster

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._166_Squadron_RAF

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._207_Squadron_RAF

4. Signal Squadron - Aircraft In action 52 - Lancaster in Action