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.