English Electric Canberra PR.57 Indian Air Force
P1098

English Electric Canberra P1098 of the Indian Air Force, intended to look as she looked in the early-to-mid 2000s. She was one of the last two Indian Canberras (and the very last PR.57) to be retired in 2007, from 106th squadron. Another PR.57, with the serial IP990 (a Kargil war veteran that survived a missile hit in 1999), crashed on 19 December 2005, causing the remaining fleet of only two aircraft to be grounded.
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. 12 of these were of the photo reconnaissance variant (including ten of the PR.57 and two second-hand examples of the PR.67 version, the latter being converted from Royal Air Force PR.7s). The first PR.57s arrived in 1958.