page_title: Avro Shackleton
section_title: United Kingdom
hierarchical_section_title: Avro Shackleton / Survivors / United Kingdom
caption_attribution_description: English: Former Royal Air Force Avro Shackleton MR3 WR974 coded "K" on display at the Gatwick Aviation Museum, England
context_page_description: The Avro Shackleton is a British long-range maritime patrol aircraft which was used by the Royal Air Force and the South African Air Force. It was developed by Avro from the Avro Lincoln bomber, which itself had been a development of the famous wartime Avro Lancaster bomber.
  The Shackleton was developed during the late 1940s as part of Britain's military response to the rapid expansion of the Soviet Navy, in particular its submarine force. Produced as the primary type equipping RAF Coastal Command, the Type 696, as it was initially designated, incorporated major elements of the Lincoln, as well as the Avro Tudor passenger aircraft, and was furnished with extensive electronics suites in order to perform the anti-submarine warfare mission along with a much-improved crew environment to accommodate the long mission times involved in patrol work. Being known for a short time as the Lincoln ASR.3, it was decided that the Type 696 would be named Shackleton in service, after the polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton.
  It entered operational service with the RAF in April 1951.
context_section_description: Stored or under restoration
  MR 2 WR963 (G-SKTN). at Coventry Airport
  On display
  MR 2C WL795 at RAF St. Mawgan, England.
  AEW 2 WR960 at the Science and Industry Museum, England.
  MR 3 WR974 at Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome, Leicestershire
  MR 3 WR977at the Newark Air Museum, England.
  MR.3 WR982 at the Gatwick Aviation Museum, England. Engines can be run on this airframe.
  MR 3 XF708 at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, England.
caption: MR.3 at the Gatwick Aviation Museum
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