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Old 14th September 2015, 15:21
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Re: Does somebody know some production details of Wellington Z1207
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Originally Posted by Alain57 View Post
Hello ,

Found this info :

The Wellington Mk. IV was powered by two US Pratt and Whitney Twin Wasp fourteen cylinder R-1830 engines. It had the smallest production run of all the marks that saw squadron service, with no more than 220 being produced at the Chester factories. These equipped two Polish squadrons (300 and 301 Sqn) and one RAAF (460 Sqn) squadron.

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Alain57
Alain, as far as I know also 305 (Polish) Sqn and 458 Sqn RAAF also used this version of Wellington.

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Greg
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