This Liberator was manufactured at the Ford Motor Company plant at Willow Run, Michigan and delivered to the RAF in 1944 on the Lend-Lease program. The Liberator came to Canada as a result of a gift the RCAF had made to the Indian Air Force. No. 6 Repair Depot RCAF at Trenton, Ontario refinished it as an RCAF Eastern Air Command anti-submarine aircraft.
Consolidated
Liberator GR VIII
The Liberator was a four-engine heavy bomber designed by Consolidated Aircraft Corporation in the U.S. and produced from 1940 to 1945. The RCAF operated four Liberator anti-submarine squadrons, one heavy transport squadron and one bomber squadron during World War 2.