Is this a Canberra?

[G-Man]

Spotted these off to the side of the main ramp in Lakeport, CA - a nice airport in a beautiful area north of California's Wine Country. But this is an airplane forum, so... Are these modified Canberras?

There were two of them, and that's a Mooney tail on the left for size reference. They seem much smaller than I expected. Look like they were doing atmostpheric research or photography.

 

[Craig]

Yep, as to which model, I'd have to do a little research.

 

[jbDC9]

A little background info...

http://www.bywat.co.uk/xh567.html

 

[G-Man]

Very cool, thanks! Though it sadly doesn't look like either of these are currently airworthy.

 

[Norman]

The British of that era were famous fo planting the engines in the wing; not above or below.

 

[X3 Skier]

AKA B-57 when built under license by Martin. The RB-47 and WB-57 with TF33 engines flew a lot of high altitude work.

Cheers

 

[X3 Skier]

The British of that era were famous fo planting the engines in the wing; not above or below.

Not to mention the over/under fuselage arrangement in the English Electric Lightning.

Cheers

 

[35 AoA]

The side by side seating arrangement leads me to believe this one was foreign/Canadian, or possibly one of the early evaluation aircraft. Could be wrong, but all the USAF service birds had tandem seats with a fighter style canopy.

 

[Fearless Tower]

The side by side seating arrangement leads me to believe this one was foreign/Canadian, or possibly one of the early evaluation aircraft. Could be wrong, but all the USAF service birds had tandem seats with a fighter style canopy.

It's an A model and they were made for the USAF. The tandem ones you are thinking of are the B-57Bs

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_B-57_Canberra