Nor did I, that's why I wanted to query it.Originally Posted by I_Fly
I reckon it's probably a Canadian-built Lancaster B X with Packard-Merlin engines.
Shame you haven't got a side photo, because it looks like the dorsal turret is farther forward than the UK designs - that's typical of the late production run Canadian builds.
The Shackleton was similar, and lasted well post-war with an X-band radome underneath as an AEW/ASW platform. Typically had contrarotating props though, and these appear to be simple 3-blade. I remember ASW Shackletons flying out of airfields in Cornwall as a teenager. But this has the classic Lancaster nose, can't be anything else.
OK, I googled for flying Lancasters and there only two in the world.
From the marking under the cockpit this is FM213 still painted as VR-A.