Built in Canada by Fairchild Aircraft Ltd and delivered to the RCAF as 9940 on 08 Aug 1942. Operated by No 5 Bombing & Gunnery School at Dafoe, Saskatchewan. Converted to a target tug in July 1944. To storage 14 Feb 1945. Sold to the Strathallen Aircraft collection arriving on 19 Dec 1972. Entered a lengthy rebuild passing via the Royal Scottish Museum to the National Museum of Flight. The rebuild including using the wings from 9059.

The Bolingbroke was the Canadian-built version of the Bristol Blenheim and was typically used for air gunner training. 9940 was operated by the RCAF between 1942 and 1946 and after disposal was one of several stored in derelict condition on a farm in Winnipeg for many years. Recovered to Strathallan in 1972, it has since undergone a gradual restoration which was only quite recently completed and is now smartly displayed in the yellow overall finish used on all Canadian WW2 training aircraft.

Under restoration at the Museum of Flight this licence built Bristol Blenheim is a composite, the fuselage of 9940 with the wings of 9049. In due course it will be painted in training yellow to represent an aircraft that had been based at East Fortune

The Bolingbroke was intended as an improved version of the Blenheim but immediately pre-WWII the British were in urgent need of actual plane numbers on the ground rather than down-the-line projects. Development was handed over to the Canadians and the end result was 626 Bolingbrokes produced between 1939 and 1943. This example is under restoration at the National Museum of Flight, East Fortune and is actually a composite aircraft using the fuselage of 9940 with the wings of 9049.

This was one of sixty-six T3 weapon system trainers built under licence by Dornier at Oberpfaffenhofen for the Luftwaffe and the type remained in service until 1982. Now she is one of the exhibits at the super Luftwaffenmuseum der Bundeswehr Gatow.

Preserved at the Luftwaffenmuseum at Gatow on that rainy day.

Preserved at the Luftwaffenmuseum at Gatow on that rainy day.