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    Airframe Family: Bristol 135/142/149 Blenheim / Bolingbroke
    Latest Model:Bolingbroke IVT
    Last Military Serial:10201 RCAF
    Construction Number:10201
    Last Civil Registration:G-BPIV
    Compressed ID:Fairchild Aircraft Ltd. (Canada) Bo...
    Latest Owner or Location:Aircraft Restoration Company, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire / Cambs, England

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    Dates

    Event

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

    18 May 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 10201.

    From 1946 to Circa 1966

    To Mr.. C. A. Yuill, Portage La Prairie, MB.
    Mr. Yuill stored the airframe on his farm on his farm at Portage La Prairie, Manitoba for the next 20 years.

    1984

    To Sir W. J. D. Roberts.

    To Strathallan Aircraft Collection, Scotland.

    From 15 February 1989 to 4 December 2003

    To Graham Arthur Warner with new c/r G-BPIV.

    From 15 February 1989 to 4 December 2003

    Based at Historic Flying Ltd/Aircraft Restoration Company, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
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    15 February 1989

    To Aircraft Restoration Company, Duxford Airfield keeping c/r G-BPIV.

    From Unknown to 28 May 1993

    Restored.
    Returned to airworthy condition. Finished in the colours of 68 Squadron.

    To unknown owner with c/r G-BPIV.

    24 July 1993


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Bolingbroke IV.T of the Aircraft Restoration Company as Z5722 on the flight-line at the 1993 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

    30 August 1993


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: At Great Warbirds Airshow, Wroughton, UK, 1993

    16 July 1994


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Flying Legends Duxford (EGSU).

    26 July 1994


    Photographer: Unknown

    Markings Applied: QY-C, L8841
    Finished in the colours of 254 Squadron.

    May 1998


    Photographer: Fred Taylor
    Notes: G-BPIV/L8841 photographed at Duxford, UK in May 1998.

    6 September 1999


    Photographer: Joop de Groot
    Notes: 1999 photo taken at Wattisham in the UK. The aircraft is currently on rebuild at Duxford UK. Photo displayed with written permission of Joop de Groot

    19 July 2003


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: In the 100 Years of Flight enclave at RIAT Fairford.

    August 2003

    Grounded.

    4 December 2003

    To Blenheim (Duxford) Ltd, C/O Propshop Ltd, Duxford Airfield, Duxford, Cambridge keeping c/r G-BPIV.

    From 2011 to November 2014

    Restored as a Bolingbroke IVT.
    Re-built at Duxford, UK. Retains the extensively restored rear fuselage of 10201 but has the nose of Blenheim If L6739.(THe nose section had been converted into an electric car in 1946 and had to be rebuilt into an airworthy structure).

    19 May 2012


    Photographer: Fred Taylor
    Notes: Photographed undergoing restoration at Duxford, UK on 19 May 2012.

    Circa July 2013

    Markings Applied: YP-Q, L6739
    Painted in the markings of 23Sqn RAF when the aircraft nose section was serving at RAF Wittering in late 1939.

    20 November 2014

    First flight.
    Flown by Aircraft Restoration Company chief pilot John Romain and flight engineer James Gilmour.

    19 July 2015


    Photographer: Thomas Delvoye
    Notes: RAF Fairford, UK

    To Aircraft Restoration Company, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
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    7 July 2024


    Photographer: Johnny Palmaers
    Notes: The Bristol Blenheim L6739 was photographed during the Fly-Inn Zwartberg (Genk) Belgium


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    Credits
    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Print Sources
    Aeroplane Monthly by Kelsey Publishing Group

    Internet Sources
    Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom

    Individual Contributors
    Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
    Peter Nicholson

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