Aircraft will be swapped
PA Blenheim Canada will soon be home to Safe Air’s last Bristol Freighter. It had been given to the Air Force Museum at Wigram, which already has a Bristol Freighter. The plane will be swapped- with the Canadians for another aircraft.
Arrangements were being made to transport it there, said the director of the Wigram museum, Squadron Leader John Barry.
The retired “bumblebee of the skies” will take up residence at the Canadian warplane Heritage Museum in Ontario.
In return, Wigram would receive a redundant warhorse from the Canadians. This was likely to be a Canadian-built Bolingbroke Mk 4 Blenheim bomber, World War II vintage.
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Press, 26 June 1987, Page 12
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