Originally Posted by
Quemerford
Why do you think it could be a prototype? Most likely to be an in-service aircraft surely? I'm not sure where those prototypes went after manufacturer testing so I guess it could be one of those, but the odds are against it.
From my (invariably a bit fuzzy) memory, it looks like a photo taken at Lyneham with the dog-leg part of the pan in the background at left and the escarpment to the (east?) in the background at right.
I think your best bet is to pin down a unit and then try to find out which aircraft was 'K'.
OK thanks Quemerford. I'm convinced now. Probably just a standard C mk1.
The chap whose photo it was had received the photo from a distant relative who had worked on Churchill's own 'York' ( that would have been LV33 "Avalon")
However as the York in the photo is not LV633 as it has 'rounded windows' not 'square' ones then as it not Churchill's I doubt whether that one in the photo was even one of the four prototypes at all.