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The Boulton Paul Defiant is a British interceptor aircraft that served with the Royal Air Force (RAF) during World War II.The Defiant was designed and built by Boulton Paul Aircraft as a "turret fighter" to meet the RAF requirement for day and night fighters that could concentrate their firepower on enemy bombers which were not expected to have fighter escorts due to the distance from Germany ...
A Boulton-Paul Defiant of No. 125 Squadron under repair at RAF Fairwood Common, Wales in January 1942. No. 125 Squadron was reformed on 16 June 1941 at RAF Colerne equipped with Bolton-Paul Defiant night fighters. [4] The squadron was raised as a result of a war loan raised by the Newfoundland Commission of Government in 1940. After discovering ...
This is a list of the Boulton Paul Defiant operators. Operators of the Defiant, dark blue = operator, light blue = operator in exile, yellow = training use only. Operators
The surviving complete example of the type is a Defiant I, N1671, on display as a night fighter at the Royal Air Force Museum. [27] The Boulton Paul Defiant "turret fighter" was originally conceived under the F.9/35 specification for a "two-seat day and night fighter" to defend Great Britain against massed formations of unescorted enemy bombers ...
Boulton Paul also built the Fairey Barracuda and did conversions of the Vickers Wellington. The only post-war design was the Balliol advanced trainer, of which 229 were built, including 30 as the Sea Balliol deck-landing trainer. In the jet age, Boulton Paul worked on the English Electric Canberra and de Havilland Vampire.
They remained at RAF Fairwood Common, either as a squadron or a detachment, through to September 1942, re-equipping initially with Boulton Paul Defiant Mk II, and later followed by Bristol Beaufighter IIF. [18] They provided night fighter cover for the sector, notably shooting down a Junkers Ju 88 on the 27 June 1942. [19]
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On 8 December 1939 it was re-formed at RAF Station Martlesham Heath to bring the Boulton Paul Defiant fighter into service. Operations began in March 1940 when the squadron started convoy patrols. Operations began in March 1940 when the squadron started convoy patrols.