Handley Page Halifax

The Halifax shared with the Lancaster the major burden of Bomber Command's night bombing campaign over Europe. Halifaxes dropped more than a quarter of all bombs on Germany by the RAF.

• W1048, on display at RAF Museum Hendon, flew from Linton to RAF Kinloss,Scotland, as the advance base for their forthcoming raid on the German battleship Tirpitz which lay in Norwegian waters, on April 27, 1942. The aircraft was hit by flak, which was intense from both Tirpitz and shore batteries, and the starboard outer engine and wing mounted fuel tanks and surrounding wing structure set alight.
  The pilot, Don MacIntyre, quickly realised that W1048 was so badly damaged it could not reach base or neutral Sweden; he therefore made a skilful wheels-up landing on the frozen surface of nearby Lake Hoklingen in central Norway 25 miles east of Trondheim.
  Some twelve hours after the crash it sank through the ice. In 1973, the wreckage was succesfully lifter and brought back to the UK. It was finally decided that due to the effort and expense required, a full restoration would not be attempted and that the aircraft would be displayed unrestored as a tribute to bomber crews of World War 2. As the aircraft had lain in a fresh water lake, although fabric had rotted from the control surfaces, cabin transparencies had distorted and magnesium alloy parts had corroded, the duralumin structure was in good condition, with little rust.
  
• NA337 at the RCAF Memorial Museum, Trenton, Ontario, Canada crashed in April 1945 as 2P-X of 644 Squadron. It was salvaged from the Norwegian lake Mjösa and fully restored by 2005.
• PN323's nose/forward fuselage is on display at IWM Duxford since September 2012
  
• (HR792/`LV907' Mk.III at the Yorkshire Air Museum is in fact a composite restoration, using the 25ft/7.72m section of the rear fuselage from Halifax MK.II HR792, recovered from the Outer Hebrides in May 1984. The rest are from the similar Handley Page Hastings)