130 Lancaster bombers served with the 550 squadron. Although I would like to include a small amount on every aircraft, I have not been able to find information on every one. If you have any information that I could add, please email.
ID
|
Service
Number |
Name
|
ops.
|
Baker- |
History
|
'A'
Flight |
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A |
LL800 |
|
|
|
To
1660CU SOC 30/05/46 |
LM319 |
|
|
|
FTR
22 May '44 |
|
ME390 |
|
|
|
Scrapped
07/05/47 |
|
NF963 |
|
|
|
Crashed
4 Oct '44 Richard Allenby (http://www.allenby.info/)
says: |
|
NN715 |
|
|
|
FTR
21/22 Feb '45 |
|
B |
EE139 |
Phantom
of the Ruhr |
121 |
Baker |
100
Sqn AR-A, HW-R, 550, 1656 HCU |
NG336 |
|
|
|
FTR
16 Mar '45 |
|
C |
JB345 |
|
|
|
To
5MU – Scrapped ??/07/47 |
RA503 |
|
|
|
SOC
23/11/45 |
|
D |
LL748 |
|
|
|
To
1LFS – 1656CU – 1662CU – 1656CU SOC 06/12/45 |
E |
LL836 |
|
|
|
FTR
10/11 Apr '44, Aulnoye |
F |
ED905 |
Press
on Regardless |
100 |
Freddie |
103
Sqn PM-X, 166 Sqn AS-X, 550, No.1 Lancaster Finishing School, 1656
HCU Crashed 20 August 1945 |
ME556 |
|
|
|
FTR 7
June '44 |
|
G |
ND403 |
|
|
|
FTR
12/13 May '44 |
H |
JA712 |
|
|
|
FTR
27/28 May '44 |
LL826 |
|
|
|
FTR
Mailly 03-04/05/44 |
|
LM134 |
|
|
|
FTR
16/17 June '44 |
|
J |
LL811 |
Bad
Penny II |
|
Jig |
Credited
with opening the D-day attack when they dropped the first string of bombs
on 5th June 1944. The crews were awarded the 'Croix de Guerre' |
K |
LL810 |
|
|
|
FTR on 27/28 May 1944. Crew are buried in the Wevelgem Communal Cemetery in Belgium. |
LL834 |
|
|
|
Ditched
off Donna Nook (2 Eng cut) 22/04/44 |
|
'B'
Flight |
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L |
LL850 |
|
|
|
Wrecked
8 July '44 |
M |
DV200 |
|
|
|
To
1LFS – 1662CU – BCIS – SOC 25/07/46 |
DV279 |
|
|
|
Crashed
at Seething ex Scholven-Buer 18-19/07/44 |
|
NG331 |
|
|
|
FTR
5/6 Jan '45 |
|
N |
W5005 |
SS-Nan |
94 |
Nan |
Ditched
in Humber estuary 26/27 Aug '44 |
LM425 |
|
|
|
FTR
30/31 Mar '44 Nuremburg |
|
O |
DV305 |
|
|
|
Wrecked
31 Jan '44 |
HK800 |
|
|
|
SOC
03/06/47 |
|
LL796 |
|
|
|
FTR
12 July '44 |
|
P |
LL747 |
|
|
|
FTR
16/17 Jun '44 |
Q |
ED942 |
|
|
|
FTR
25/26 Feb '44 |
LL837 |
|
|
|
FTR
14/15 July '44 |
|
ME548 |
|
|
|
FTR
18 Mar '45 |
|
R |
ME503 |
|
|
|
FTR
7/8 Mar '45 Dessau |
S |
DV309 |
|
|
Sugar |
Crashed,
Schobbroek 21/22 May 1944 |
LM229 |
|
|
|
Swung
on take-off 4 July '44 |
|
LM647 |
|
|
|
FTR
13 Jul '44 |
|
PD343 |
|
|
|
Missing
in Transit (Italy – UK) 29/09/45 |
|
T |
PD255 |
|
|
|
FTR 2
Nov '44 |
U |
LL831 |
|
|
|
To
1LFS – 1667CU – 1656CU SOC 17/12/45 |
V |
LL851 |
|
|
|
FTR
21/22 May '44 |
NF962 |
|
|
|
FTR
31 Aug '44 |
|
PA309 |
|
|
|
FTR
22 May '44 |
|
PA995 |
The
Vulture Strikes |
101 |
|
FTR
11 March 1945, Dessau |
|
PD208 |
|
|
|
Crashed
at Wansford ex Fontaine-le-Pin 14/08/44 |
|
W |
JA918 |
|
|
|
FTR
9/10 May '44 |
X |
LL852 |
|
|
|
FTR
15/16 Mar '44 |
ME301 |
|
|
|
FTR
4/5 Apr '45 |
|
Z |
RA502 |
|
|
|
Collided
with 170 Sqn Lanc. crashed at Fleville, (France) 1 February 1 '45 |
'C'
Flight |
|||||
A2 |
NF931 |
|
|
|
To
100 Sqdn SOC 22/05/47 |
B2 |
NF932 |
|
|
|
Blew
up 13 Feb '45 |
RF136 |
|
|
|
Overshot
Pomigliano (Italy) Crashed 06/10/45 |
|
C2 |
|
|
|
|
|
D2 |
|
|
|
|
|
E2 |
NG132 |
|
|
|
Shot
down by intruder, Humber Estuary 18:00 17 Mar '45 (the last Bomber Command
aircraft to be shot down over the UK in WWII) |
F2 |
NG133 |
|
|
|
FTR
14 Oct '44 |
NG221 |
|
|
|
SOC
26/10/45 |
|
PA268 |
|
|
|
SOC
03/09/46 |
|
G2 |
LM228 |
|
|
|
SOC
23/03/46 |
H2 |
|
|
|
|
|
J2 |
|
|
|
|
|
K2 |
NG135 |
|
|
|
SOC
10/12/45 |
L2 |
PB707 |
|
|
|
SOC
21/05/47 |
M2 |
NG243 |
|
|
Mike
squared |
SOC
23/11/45 |
Details
not clear |
|||||
C |
ND425 |
|
|
|
FTR
30/31 Mar '44, Nuremburg |
X |
ND972 |
|
|
|
SOC
21/05/47 |
|
DV189 |
|
|
|
FTR 2
Jan '44 |
|
DV192 |
|
|
|
To
100 Sqdn FTR Friedrichshafen 28/04/44 |
|
DV306 |
|
|
|
FTR
15 Jan '44 |
|
DV343 |
|
|
|
FTR
23/24 Dec '43 |
|
DV345 |
|
|
|
Caught
fire in air 2 Jan '44 |
|
ED536 |
|
|
|
To
1LFS – 1667CU – SOC 7/05/47 |
|
ED562 |
|
|
|
Abandoned
(Needham Market, Suffolk) 18 July '44 |
|
ED716 |
|
|
|
To
166 – 1667CU – SOC 02/06/47 |
|
ED730 |
|
|
|
Mid-air
collision 23/24 Dec '43 |
|
EE193 |
|
|
|
FTR
30 Aug '44 |
|
HK796 |
|
0 |
|
No
operations |
|
JA934 |
|
|
|
FTR
16 Feb '44 |
|
LL838 |
|
|
|
Wrecked
22 June '44 |
|
LM182 |
|
|
|
SOC
06/11/46 |
|
LM273 |
|
|
|
FTR
23 Feb '45 |
|
LM301 |
|
|
|
FTR 3
Dec '43 |
|
LM321 |
|
|
|
To
100 Sqdn FTR Acheres 11/06/44 |
|
LM379 |
|
|
|
FTR
27 Nov '43 |
|
LM392 |
|
|
|
FTR
15/16 Feb '44 |
|
LM455 |
|
|
|
FTR
29 Jul '44 |
|
LM460 |
|
|
|
To
1666CU SOC 17/06/47 |
|
LM461 |
|
|
|
FTR
20 Feb '44 |
|
LM727 |
|
|
|
To
1FU – 70 SOC 03/06/47 |
|
ME476 |
|
|
|
To
5MU SOC ??/02/46 |
|
ME499 |
|
|
|
Crashed
18/12/46 |
|
ME519 |
|
|
|
SOC
15/05/47 |
|
ME542 |
|
|
|
SOC
15/05/47 |
|
ME581 |
|
|
|
FTR
23 Apr '44 |
|
ME582 |
|
|
|
FTR
26 Feb '44 |
|
ME583 |
|
|
|
To
1LFS – 1656CU – Scrapped 08/08/46 |
|
ME687 |
|
|
|
To
576 FTR Dortmund 23/05/44 |
|
ME776 |
|
|
|
SOC
04/10/45 |
|
ME840 |
|
|
|
FTR
17 Jun '44 |
|
ND396 |
|
|
|
FTR
31 Jan '44 |
|
ND531 |
|
|
|
FTR
21/22 Jun '44, Wesseling |
|
ND733 |
|
|
|
To
9 – 463 Abandoned over Juvincourt 17/04/45 |
|
NE164 |
|
|
|
FTR
29 July '44 |
|
NF998 |
|
|
|
Wrecked,
ops 23/24 Feb '45 |
|
NG120 |
|
|
|
SOC
21/11/45 |
|
NG134 |
|
|
|
SOC
23/11/45 |
|
NG165 |
|
|
|
To
166 Sqdn |
|
NG192 |
|
1 |
|
FTR
19/20 Oct '44 |
|
NG246 |
|
|
|
SOC
23/11/45 |
|
NG250 |
|
|
|
To
100 – SOC 08/03/46 |
|
NG251 |
|
|
|
FTR 6
Dec '44 |
|
NG287 |
|
|
|
FTR
15/16 Mar '45 |
|
NG289 |
|
|
|
SOC
23/11/45 |
|
NG290 |
|
|
|
To
166 – FTR Munich 08/01/45 |
|
NG363 |
|
|
|
FTR 8
Jan '45 |
|
NG390 |
|
|
|
To
100 – SOC 16/03/46 |
|
NG391 |
|
|
|
To
166 FTR Ludwigshafen 02/02/45 |
|
PA288 |
|
|
|
SOC
13/03/48 |
|
PA991 |
|
|
|
FTR
29 Aug '44 |
|
PB514 |
|
|
|
SOC
04/10/45 |
|
PB532 |
|
|
|
To
100 – TFU – TCDU Scrapped 03/07/51 |
|
PB562 |
|
|
|
FTR 6
Nov '44 |
|
PB843 |
|
|
|
To
1660CU SOC 28/03/46 |
|
PB864 |
|
|
|
To
1660CU Crashed St Claire Eglise 31/05/45 |
|
PD221 |
|
|
|
Wrecked
3/4 Feb '45 |
|
PD313 |
|
|
|
SOC
26/10/45 |
|
PD319 |
|
|
|
FTR
14 Oct '44 |
|
PD320 |
|
|
|
FTR
24 Mar '45 |
|
PD321 |
|
|
|
SOC
22/05/47 |
|
PD382 |
|
|
|
SOC
23/11/45 |
|
RA547 |
|
|
|
SOC
03/09/47 |
|
RF135 |
|
|
|
SOC
19/02/46 |
|
RF214 |
|
|
|
Scrapped
12/04/51 |
|
RF237 |
|
|
|
Scrapped
07/05/47 |
Thanks to Bob Baxter (Bob's Bomber Command Homepage) for supplying additional details of the aircraft.
Anybody wishing to locate further Lancaster histories, or to trace Lancaster losses for a raid can contact Larry Wright (a Lancaster and Manchester Bomber Historian) or look at his website : http://www.lancaster-archive.com/homeindex.htm