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    Airframe Family: Bristol 135/142/149 Blenheim / Bolingbroke
    Latest Model:Bolingbroke IVT
    Last Military Serial:10040 RCAF
    Compressed ID:Fairchild Aircraft Ltd. (Canada) Bo...
    Latest Owner or Location:Melun Villaroche, Paris, Seine et Marne

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Bolingbroke IVT by Fairchild Aircraft Ltd. (Canada) at Quebec, Canada.

    10 December 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 10040.

    Transferred to No. 1 Training Command.

    From 16 February 1943 to 3 June 1943

    Transferred to No. 2 Training Command.

    Transferred to No. 1 Training Command.

    January 1944

    Transferred to No. 2 Training Command.

    Transferred to No. 3 Bombing and Gunnery School, RCAF Station MacDonald, MB.

    1 December 1944

    Transferred to No. 2 Air Command.

    10 February 1945

    To stored reserve.

    15 May 1945

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Canadian Air Force.

    12 October 1945

    Available for disposal with 838:50 airframe time.

    Transferred to No. 10 Repair Depot, MacDonald.

    Transferred to War Assets Corporation.

    Stored outdoors on Manitoba farm for several years.

    1976

    To Western Canada Aviation Museum, Winnipeg.

    1983

    To Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Mount Hope, ON.
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    Used in the restoration of RCAF s/n 9023, a Bolinbroke Mk IVW 9023.
    For more information about this other airframe see this Airframe Dossier

    To Melun Villaroche, Paris, Seine et Marne.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Canadian Military Aircraft Serial Numbers by Brian Walker
    Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
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