On 24 April, the Kent Battle of Britain Museum at Hawkinge took delivery of a freshly restored Bristol Bolingbroke IVT/Blenheim Ⅳ nose section from a workshop in Whitstable, where classic car restorer Julian Richardson had been working on it for inclusion in the museum's composite Blenheim rebuild during lockdown. The nose, which was shipped to the UK from Canada during 2018, has now been fitted to the centre-section of Bolingbroke RCAF 10038/G-MKIV, the ex-British Aerial Museum machine that was wrecked during a touch-and-go at Denham in June 1987, just a month after its first post-restoration flight from Duxford. The wings are also from G-MKIV and still bear the scars of its cartwheeling incident.
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