English Electric Canberra B(I).58 Indian Air Force
IF901

English Electric Canberra IF901 of the Indian Air Force, intended to look as she looked at the time of her retirement. First flown in 1957 and originally produced for the Royal Air Force (serialled XH230), this aircraft was not taken up but exported to India instead. She was one of six IAF Canberras to be deployed with the UN contingent in Congo from 1961 to 1963, and one of the last two Indian Canberras (and the very last B(I).58) to be retired in 2007, from 106th squadron.
India was the largest export customer of the type (not counting the USA), acquiring a total of 126 examples between 1957 and 1971, including second-hand aircraft from the UK and some from Australia. 77 of these were of the bomber-interdictor version. After the Congo crisis, they were also used extensively in the 1965 and 1971 wars against Pakistan.