The Bristol Bolingbroke, formally the Bristol Fairchild Bolingbroke, was a twin-engine aircraft built in Canada during the Second World War for the Royal Canadian Air Force. It was a licence-built version of the Bristol Blenheim Mk IV light bomber, produced by Fairchild Aircraft Ltd. of Quebec, and it served as a maritime patrol bomber and later as a trainer. A Canadian requirement for a long-range patrol aircraft led Fairchild to take up the Blenheim Mk IV design, first in a short run built to British specifications and then with Canadian and American instruments and equipment. In all 626 were built, including 457 of the Mk IVT trainer version used at the bombing and gunnery schools of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Patrol squadrons flew it off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Canada, and two squadrons served in Alaska during the Aleutians campaign. Several examples survive in museums in Canada, Belgium and the United Kingdom.
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Produced by Fairchild-Canada, it was a license-built version of the Blenheim Mk IV bomber.
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Fairchild Aircraft Ltd. (Canada) of Quebec started production of the Blenheim Mk IV as the Bolingbroke
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The Bristol Fairchild Bolingbroke is a maritime patrol aircraft and trainer used by the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War.
Variants, Bolingbroke Mk I
Twin-engine maritime patrol bomber aircraft, powered by two Bristol Mercury VIII radial piston engines, with British equipment.
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9059, Mk. IV on static display at the Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum in Brandon, Manitoba.
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Produced by Fairchild-Canada, it was a license-built version of the Blenheim Mk IV bomber.
Design and development, Canadian production
Fairchild Aircraft Ltd. (Canada) of Quebec started production of the Blenheim Mk IV as the Bolingbroke
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The Bristol Fairchild Bolingbroke is a maritime patrol aircraft and trainer used by the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War.
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The Bristol Fairchild Bolingbroke is a maritime patrol aircraft and trainer used by the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War.
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Most of the 151 Mk IVs built served in their intended role as patrol bombers on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Canada between 1940 and 1944.
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