The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum's Lancaster Mk X, FM-213 was built in July of 1945 and was one of the last batch of Lancasters off the production line.

She became known as a jinxed or rogue aircraft on the assembly line as there was always something preventing her from being accepted. After a test flight in August of 1945 by Don Rogers, Andy Gabura, Fred Lake & Tommy Thompson, FM-213 like so many others were, put into storage. The R.C.A.F. took her on in June 1946 and she was to be converted and used in a Maritime Reconnaissance/Patrol Bomber role. The conversion wasn't completed until 1951 and she went 405 Squadron, Greenwood, Nova Scotia receiving the code letters AG-J. With only 10.5 flying hours on her airframe, she was damaged during the ferry flight to 405 Squadron. This happened during a rather heavy landing at Trenton, the undercarriage collapsed and the center section was badly damaged whilst in the hands of the ferry crew.

FM-213's career nearly ended there, being considered as virtually unsalvageable due to the amount of damage. Dismantled and put into storage at de Havilland, FM-213 waited for a replacement center section, which was finally found in 1952, out west. One of the last Lancaster's to retire from the R.C.A.F., FM-213 had a long and trouble free life. In November 1963, FM-213 was finally retired and put into storage yet again, this time at Dunnville. With a life expectancy of no more than 100 hours, she had clocked up an incredible 4,392.3 !

The story would have ended there as scrap but, for Bill Clancy who was alarmed at the numbers of surviving WW 2 aircraft that where being scrapped.