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Blenheim Mk Is of No. 62 Squadron RAF lined up at RAF Tengah, Singapore, c. February 1941. In September 1939, the month in which the Second World War broke out, the Blenheim Mk I equipped two home-based squadrons and 11 overseas squadrons in locations such as Egypt, Aden, Iraq, India, and Singapore. Further RAF squadrons had received, or were ...
It was restored as a Blenheim Mk.1F, using a Blenheim Mk I nose which had previously been converted to a car. It is registered as G-BPIV. [46] United States. 9983 – Mk. IVT in storage at Fantasy of Flight in Polk City, Florida. [47] [48] 10076 – Mk. IV on static display at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona. [49]
Bristol Blenheim of the Finnish Air Force. Photo taken in March, 1944. Finnish Air Force. Finland was the first export order for the Blenheim and 18 Mark Is were delivered between 29 July 1937 and 27 July 1938.
Aircraft of Fighter Command on display for the press at Grangemouth in Scotland, 25 April 1941. In the foreground is a Hawker Hurricane Mk I of No. 315 (Polish) Squadron; in the background a Bristol Blenheim Mk IF of No. 23 Squadron; and overhead, three Supermarine Spitfires of No. 58 Operational Training Unit.
These were replaced by Blenheim Mk.Is from August 1938 which gave way in their turn to Blenheim Mk.IVs in May 1939. It was with five of this aircraft that No. 107 took part in the RAF's first bombing raid of the war against enemy ships in the German port of Wilhelmshaven on 4 September 1939, the day after war was declared on Germany, along with ...
The Bristol Blenheim: A Complete History. London: Crécy Publishing, 2nd edition 2005. ISBN 0-85979-101-7. White, Graham. Allied Aircraft Piston Engines of World War II: History and Development of Frontline Aircraft Piston Engines Produced by Great Britain and the United States During World War II. Warrendale, Pennsylvania: SAE International, 1995.
On the night of the 22/23 July 1940 they achieved the first aircraft-interception radar kill in history. A Blenheim Mk IF flown by Flying Officer G. Ashfield, with a crew of Pilot Officer G.E. Morris (Observer) and Sergeant R.H. Leyland (AI radar operator), patrolled the Sussex coast at 10,000 ft (3,000 m).
Tasked with coastal patrol and attack, the squadron flew the Bristol Blenheim Mk.IV & later the Beaufighter. From May 1944 to September 1944 they were based at RAF Davidstow Moor in Cornwall, England.