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36,858 pounds empty was the weight of the Avro Lancaster Bomber plane of World War 2.

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The Lancaster's empty weight was just over 36,000 pounds, very close to that of the B-17. -However the Lancaster had a bomb load of 16 - 20,000 pounds -twice what the B-17 carried.

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