Lancaster Production Totals
Updated: January 2008
While the accepted number of total Manchester's produced is 202, it is interesting to find that the actually total number of Manchester and Lancaster airframes ordered was 9,012, the breaking down as follows:
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9012 |
Total Lancaster and Manchester Serial No's issued (ordered) |
| - 652 | Total Manchester Serial No's issued |
| 8360 | Lancaster Serial No's issued |
| - 983 | Lancaster's cancelled prior to being built |
| 7377 | Total Lancaster's produced |
| - 2882 | Scrapped airframes all causes |
| 4495 | |
| - 26 | Identified airframe in museums or still in crash sites |
| 4469 | |
| - 39 | Lost on the ground due to fire (at dispersal) |
| 4430 | |
| - 9 | Unknown (files corrupt/no data available) |
| 4421 | |
| - 19 | Exploded on the air/on the ground non-op's related |
| 4402 | |
| - 904 | Crashed in England base - all causes |
| 3498 | Balance - Total Lancaster's lost on Op's all causes ** |
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** Assuming a standard crew of seven the loss 3,498 aircraft represents the loss of 24,486 aircrew either killed, captured or injured. Pathfinder crews normally consisted of 8 crew members so the figure is potentially even higher. |
