This Bolingbroke IV is one of 676 aircraft built by the Fairchild Aircraft Company plant at Longueuil, Québec, Canada. RCAF-9048 entered service with No.8 (Bomber Reconnaissance) Squadron at RCAF Station Sydney, Nova Scotia, in November 1941.
RCAF-9048 will be restored in her original RCAF camouflage of No.8 (BR) Squadron as flown from RCAF Station Sydney (Nova Scotia) in November 1941 and RCAF Station Sea Island, located beside Vancouver Airport, from January 1942.
Hightlight of Flying Legends 2015. Blenheim I L6739 leading the "75 Years Battle of Britain" formation with Spitfire I's X4650, N3200 and AR213 (representing Mk.IIa P7308) and Hurricane XII G-HURI, in the colours of P3700/RF-E of 303 (Polish) Squadron.
John Romain, chief pilot of ARCo, Duxford, doglegging Blenheim I L6739 over the control tower at Old Warden. To his right is flight engineer John 'Smudge' Smith. L6739 served as a nightfighter with 23 Squadron at RAF Collyweston and Wittering in 1939/40.
Painted to represent a Blenheim 4F of No.68 (Night Fighter) Squadron, RAF and pictured at the '93 Mildenhall Air Fete. Scanned from Kodachrome 64 slide.
Around 35 of the 508 Bolingbroke IV.T's built by Fairchild Aircraft at Longueuil, Quebec, Canada, survive, including RCAF 9940, currently under restoration at East Fortune. The Bolingbroke was bought from the Strathallan Collection in 1981.