Registration / Serial:WD929
Aircraft Original Type:English Electric Canberra
Aircraft Generic Type:English Electric Canberra
Aircraft Version:English Electric Canberra U10
C/n (msn):71008
Operator Titles:Australia - Air Force
City / Area:Adelaide-Wingfield / Sims Metal [ Off-Airport, gone ]Map
Region / Country:South Australia, Australia
Photo Date:July 1967
Photo by:Geoff Goodall (via David Carter)Website
Photo ID:150212Submit Correction
View count: 289
Incredibly, this is the first production Canberra delivered to the RAF in October 1950. It was over the nose of this aircraft that Australian prime minister Robert Menzies poured champagne on January 19, 1951 when naming the new bomber "Canberra". In 1957 WD929 was converted to a U10 drone. Shipped to the RAAF's Weapons Research Establishment in 1959 and destroyed by a missile on October 15 that year. Remains turned up in a scrapyard in the Adelaide industrial suburb of Wingfield.
Registration / Serial:WD929
Aircraft Version:English Electric Canberra U10
C/n (msn):71008
Operator Titles:Australia - Air Force
City / Area:Adelaide-Wingfield / Sims Metal [ Off-Airport, gone ]Map
Region / Country:South Australia, Australia
Photo Date:July 1967
Photo by:Geoff Goodall (via David Carter)Website
Registration / Serial:WD929
Aircraft Original Type:English Electric Canberra
Aircraft Generic Type:English Electric Canberra
Aircraft Version:English Electric Canberra U10
C/n (msn):71008
Operator Titles:Australia - Air Force
City / Area:Adelaide-Wingfield / Sims Metal [ Off-Airport, gone ]Map
Region / Country:South Australia, Australia
Photo Date:July 1967
Photo by:Geoff Goodall (via David Carter)Website
Photo ID:150212Submit Correction
View count: 289
Incredibly, this is the first production Canberra delivered to the RAF in October 1950. It was over the nose of this aircraft that Australian prime minister Robert Menzies poured champagne on January 19, 1951 when naming the new bomber "Canberra". In 1957 WD929 was converted to a U10 drone. Shipped to the RAAF's Weapons Research Establishment in 1959 and destroyed by a missile on October 15 that year. Remains turned up in a scrapyard in the Adelaide industrial suburb of Wingfield.
Registration / Serial:WD929
Aircraft Version:English Electric Canberra U10
C/n (msn):71008
Operator Titles:Australia - Air Force
City / Area:Adelaide-Wingfield / Sims Metal [ Off-Airport, gone ]Map
Region / Country:South Australia, Australia
Photo Date:July 1967
Photo by:Geoff Goodall (via David Carter)Website