The Nanchang CJ-6 is an aircraft designed and built in China for use by the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) as a basic trainer. This one landed at Buchanan Airfield on afternoon.
The Bolingbroke IVT cockpit section was removed from the aircraft after the landing accident in August 2003. Some instruments, control column and the pilot’s seat have been removed. The instrument panel in the Blenheim I cockpit is considerably smaller.
Blenheim I cockpit section fitted to the Bolingbroke IV fuselage, following succesful trials in May 2008. The cockpit comes from an Avro built Blenheim, delivered to 23 Squadron at RAF Wittering on September 2, 1939.
Restoration work on the Bolingbroke IVT/Blenheim I combination is progressing slowly and it will take the ARCo at least some years to return it to the air. The aircraft will most likely represent nightfighter Blenheim I L6739, 23 Squadron, 1939/40.
The Northrop N-9M was a one-third scale aircraft used for the development of the Northrop XB-35 and YB-35 Flying Wing long-range bomber program. When the B-35 program was canceled, every N-9M test model was scrapped except the last, this one, N-9MB.