Head on, showing the offset cockpit

After more than 50 years of operational service with the Royal Air Force, the Canberra was finally retired the month after this photograph was taken. It is seen here arriving for the 2006 Waddington Airshow.

Having returned from delighting the crowds at Fairford, the Canberra took off from Kemble again. Below you can see 747 G-MKCA, modified for a promotional film which featured the new Land Rover Sport being driven up steep ramps, through cut-outs in the nose, inside the fuselage and out again

Built in late 1958 by Short Bros. & Harland at Belfast. After testing at AAEE Boscombe Down it was flown by No. 13 Squadron based at RAF Luqa Malta until it crashed near Hal Far on approach on 25 March 1969.

Canberra PR.9 of No. 39 Squadron based at RAF Wyton. Exhibited at RAF Finningley during the Queens Silver Jubilee Air Show.

Looking good in the early sunshine at her home base and now just over 50 years old, having served the RAF till 2006