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    Airframe Family: Bristol 135/142/149 Blenheim / Bolingbroke
    Latest Model:Bolingbroke IVT
    Last Military Serial:10073 RCAF
    Compressed ID:Fairchild Aircraft Ltd. (Canada) Bo...
    Latest Owner or Location:Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre, RAF East Kirkby, East Kirkby, Lincolnshire / Lincs, England

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    Dates

    Event

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

    21 January 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 10073.

    Circa 21 January 1943

    Transferred to No. 2 Training Command.
    Delivered into stored reserve with No 2.

    17 February 1943

    Issued on this date.

    From 14 June 1943 to 16 August 1943

    Placed back in stored reserve.

    December 1944

    Transferred to No. 2 Air Command.

    7 February 1945

    Assigned to RCAF Station Paulson, MB for storage.
    Placed in storage at Paulson with 643 hours and 10 minutes on the airframe.

    21 August 1946

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

    Transferred to War Assets.
    To War Assets for disposal.

    Sold to a farmer near Paulson for parts. Stored outside for many years.

    To Wes Agnew, Hartney, MB.
    Recovered from the farm by Mr. Agnew.

    1972

    Transported by rail
    Moved from Canada to Ontario, CA.

    To Military Aircraft Restoration Corporation (MARC)/David Tallichet, Chino Airport, Chino, CA.
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    By 2001

    For General Patton Army Airfield Group, Chiriaco, CA, but not collected from Chino.

    15 November 2001


    Photographer: Andrew Appleton
    Notes: Bolingbroke forward fuselage section, thought to be 10073, in the MARC compound at Chino. The rear fuselage is just behind.

    Circa 2004

    To Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
    Stored, dismantled.
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    Transported by ground.
    Moved from Chino, CA, to Pima, AZ, for storage.

    November 2018

    To Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre, RAF East Kirkby, East Kirkby, Lincolnshire/Lincs, England.
    Acquired, but did not leave Pima until 2022.
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    7 March 2020


    Photographer: Richard Talley
    Notes: In storage in pieces- Nose Section

    7 March 2020


    Photographer: Richard Talley
    Notes: In storage in pieces- Wings

    November 2022

    Transported by ship.
    Arrived at East Kirkby, to assist in restoration of 9980.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Canadian Military Aircraft Serial Numbers by Brian Walker
    Individual Contributors
     Andrew Appleton
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