Lancaster Bomber

In 2005 while working in the Auchterarder Tourist Office a gentleman came in asking for information about the Lancaster Bomber which had once been part of an aircraft collection at the Strathallan Aircraft Museum. The Museum had been closed for over twenty years but we were continually asked about it. I told the gentleman that there had been a Lancaster Bomber at the Museum but thought it had been moved to England when all the planes were dispersed. He was amazed to learn that it had been in the collection as he thought it must have been very difficult to get such a large plane to land on a small airstrip (now a parachute club uses it) He had only been gone a few minutes when another gentleman came in to the office and we got chatting about various things. I told him that I had just been chatting about a Lancaster Bomber that had been flown in to Strathallan and he started laughing. Turns out he was one of the crew who brought the Lancaster back from Canada to Strathallan!! Quite a hairy journey by all accounts but I was so annoyed that he had not come in to my office 5 minutes earlier.