ND458 HW-A
Avro Lancaster B.III · "Able Mabel"
| Code letters | HW-A |
|---|---|
| Squadron | No. 100 Squadron |
| Mark | B.III |
| Fate | Scrapped post-war |
Notes
Lancaster III ND458 ‘Able Mabel’ (also nicknamed ‘The Bad Penny’) joined No. 100 Squadron as HW-A in January 1944 and flew 132 sorties — 125 bombing operations, one prisoner-repatriation ‘Exodus’ flight and six ‘Manna’ food drops to the starving Dutch. Her hundredth was a raid on Chemnitz. One of the select band of Lancaster ‘centurions’, she survived the war, served afterwards with the Bomber Command Instructors’ School, and was scrapped in 1947.
No sorties recorded for this airframe yet.
Source: 100 Squadron Association — WW2 Bomber Command 1945 →