Survivors
Several ex-RAF machines and RB-57s remain flying in the US for research and mapping work. About 10 airworthy Canberras are in private hands today, and are flown at air displays. The Temora Aviation Museum, in Australia, has a former RAF Canberra which it acquired in 2001. The aircraft was fully restored to airworthiness and painted to represent the Canberras flown by the Royal Australian Air Force 2 Squadron during the Vietnam war. It is Australia's only airworthy Canberra.
Two American-built WB-57Fs are still operated by NASA for high altitude research, as well as providing electronic communication (Battlefield Airborne Communications Node or BACN) testing for deployment to Afghanistan. In addition, two British-built Canberras are registered to High Altitude Mapping Missions, Inc. of Spokane Washington. These are N30UP, a Canberra B(I)8/B.2/6, originally operated as WT327, and N40UP, a Canberra B6, originally operated as XH567. These two aircraft were previously operated by Air Platforms Inc in Lakeport California.
At least two Canberras retired from the Argentine Air Force have been preserved in Argentina:
- B Mk.62 B-102 (ex-RAF WJ713). Retired in 1998, and assigned to "Museo Nacional de Malvinas", Oliva, province of Córdoba.
- B Mk.62 B-105. On display at Mar del Plata Air Base, province of Buenos Aires.
The South African Air Force Museum have preserved the following Canberra:
- T Mk.4 457 (71543) South African Air Force displayed at the South African Air Force Museum Swartkop Air Force Base Pretoria.
The South Australian Aviation Museum at Port Adelaide has a non flying Canberra B2, WK165
The Midland Air Museum based at Coventry Airport in England, has a PR.3 version WF922 on static display. It was retired from the RAF in 1975. WF922 was recently fully restored.
A PR7 Canberra (WH773)is on static display at the Gatwick Aviation Museum in West Sussex, United Kingdom. WH773 was the first production PR.7 Canberra.
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“I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don’t know how to handle their parents. They see that their parents are traumatized: they scream and don’t react normally.”
—Elie Wiesel (b. 1928)
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