The 4 engined Halifax was the second bomber of Bomber Command. Although introduced in 1939  it was always seen as the second aircraft  to the later Lancaster.  6,176 Halifax were built - but very few remain.

 

There are two complete Halifax in Britain - a crashed  Mk 1 on display at RAF Museum Hendon and a Mk 3 at the Yorkshire Air Museum. There is also a further Halifax - in Trenton, Canada. This latter machine was recovered from a Nordic lake and is now fully restored.

 

A lot of Halifax carried Nose Art - partly because the Canadian RCAF squadrons used them extensively.  But there were many RAF Halifax with Nose Art.

 

Only 4 Halifax achieved 100 missions - The most famous Halifax was Friday the 13th - which after completing  128 missions was displayed at Selfridges - after the war the artwork was clipped out and the aircraft scrapped. The Nose Art panel is at the IWM. The Yorkshire aircraft is painted as Friday the 13th. A further Halifax centurion was Expensive Babe.

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The panels are available. The panels are accurate scale reproductions of the full nose  (from Former 1 to 6) and are 75 cm long x 55 cm high.  They are made from 2 main pieces of aluminium sheet with several aluminum details added. Panels use flat head rivets and have perspex window panes - all as on the original Mk 3 aircraft

 

The artwork is based upon original drawings and is hand painted onto the panel along with stenciling of Logos, designations etc.

Further panels are planned

 

Panels are priced at £185 plus post & packaging