Editing Avro Lancaster (section)

====Royal Canadian Air Force====
[[File:Lancaster10MP 405Sqn RCAF NAS Jax Feb1953.jpg|thumb|RCAF 405 Squadron Lancaster 10MP Maritime Patrol aircraft in February 1953]]
Beginning in 1946, Lancaster Mk Xs were modified for service with the [[Royal Canadian Air Force]] (RCAF). Fourteen were modified to perform aerial and photo-reconnaissance missions; these would go on to perform much of the mapping of northern Canada until as late as 1962. Throughout the 1950s, the RCAF operated seventy modified Lancasters, designated ''Lancaster 10MR/MPs'', as Maritime Reconnaissance and Patrol aircraft in an anti-submarine role. Modifications involved the installation of radar and sonobuoy operators' positions, removal of the rear and mid-upper gun turrets, installation of a 400-gallon fuel tank in the bomb bay to increase the patrol range, upgraded electronics, radar, and instrumentation, and a cooking stove in the centre section.<ref>[http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/collections/artifacts/aircraft/AvroLancasterX/ "Lancaster X."] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110830103603/http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/collections/artifacts/aircraft/AvroLancasterX/ |date=30 August 2011}} ''Canadian Aviation and Space Museum.'' Retrieved 3 October 2011.</ref> They served throughout the 1950s, when they were supplemented by the [[Lockheed Neptune]] and finally replaced by the [[Canadair Argus]].<ref name="Bomber Command Museum">[http://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/lanccanadian.html "The Canadian Lancasters."] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161030014404/http://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/lanccanadian.html |date=30 October 2016}} ''Bomber Command Museum.'' Retrieved 3 October 2011.</ref>