most Lancaster missions

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Good evening Gentlemen,

the Lancaster definitely produced more VC airmen than any other aircraft type:

7 VC's

• Avro Lancaster: Ian Bazalgette, Guy Gibson, Norman Jackson, John Nettleton, Robert Palmer, William Reed, George Thompson

3 VC's

• Bristol Blenheim: Hughie Edwards, Hugh Malcolm, Arthur Scarf
• R.A.F. B.E.2c: William Leefe Robinson, Frank McNamara, William Rhodes-Moorhouse
• R.A.F. S.E.5a: Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor, Edward Mannock, James McCudden

2 VC's

• Armstrong Whitworth FK 8: Alan McLeod, Ferdinand West
• Fairey Battle: Donald Garland, Thomas Gray
• Handley Page Halifax: Cyril Barton, Leonard Cheshire
• Handley Page Hampden: John Hannah, Roderick Learoyd

1 VC

• Airco D.H.2: Lionel Rees
• Avro Manchester: Leslie Manser
• Bristol Beaufort: Kenneth Campbell
• Bristol Scout: Lanoe Hawker
• Consolidated Catalina: John Cruickshank
• Douglas Dakota: David Lord
• Hawker Hurricane: James Nicolson
• Morane-Saulnier Type L: Reginald Warneford
• Nieuport 10: Richard Bell-Davies
• Nieuport 23: William Bishop
• R.A.F. F.E.2d: Thomas Mottershead
• R.A.F. R.E.5: John Liddell
• R.A.F. S.E.5: Albert Ball
• Short Stirling: Arthur Aaron
• Sopwith Camel: Alan Jerrard
• Sopwith Snipe: William Barker
• Vickers F.B.5: Gilbert Insall
• Vought Corsair: Robert Gray

Cheshire's VC citation mentions a mission in a Mustang but the award was made for four years of fighting and I think he flew more missions in a Halifax than in his other planes.

Cheers,

Michael