The resurection of this thread is the 1st time that I've seen it.
My nomination for the 'Oldest Pilot on the books', is MoRAF Sir Mike Beetham! I believe that his last 'mission' was in the BBMF Lancaster at Betty's Jubilee.
If you get to 5* rank, you don't retire
As for the Canberra PR9's I worked on them during my time at Akrotiri, Oct 62 to Oct 64.
They were on 13 Sqdn at the time.