The Avro Shackleton – a cousin of the iconic Lancaster bomber – was used to track Soviet submarines in UK waters, and to aid in search and rescue operations, from the 1950s to the early 1990s.

The Avro Shackleton – a cousin of the iconic Lancaster bomber – was used to track Soviet submarines in UK waters, and to aid in search and rescue operations, from the 1950s to the early 1990s.

The Avro Shackleton, which was used to track Soviet submarines from the 1950s to the early 1990s, has now been moved to the Yorkshire Air Museum (YAM) at Elvington. The aircraft, known as ...