It was an aircraft to be admired in the cold war years when keeping an eye on Soviet shipping was a vital part of winning the ...

The Avro Shackleton, which was used to track Soviet submarines from the 1950s to the early 1990s, has now been moved to the Yorkshire Air Museum (YAM) at Elvington.

Work to rebuild a submarine-hunting aircraft at a top York attraction is ready to begin. All the sections of the the Avro Shackleton – a cousin of the iconic Lancaster bomber – which was used to track ...

The Avro Shackleton ... Elvington, York, preparing for the massive task which is expected to take at least two years to rebuild a giant RAF submarine-hunting aircraft. Picture: James Hardisty.

The final sections of a historic aircraft nicknamed The Growler have been delivered to an air museum near York where it will be restored to its former glory.

Work to rebuild a submarine-hunting aircraft at a top York attraction is ready to begin. All the sections of the the Avro Shackleton – a cousin of the iconic Lancaster bomber – which was used to track ...

As the designer of the Lancaster, the RAF’s workhouse heavy bomber of WW2, Roy Chadwick deserves to be lauded as a ‘Great’; it was his invention that delivered perhaps the most famed precision air ...