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The Blackburn B.26 Botha was a four-seat reconnaissance and torpedo bomber. It was produced by the British aviation company Blackburn Aircraft at its factories at Brough and Dumbarton . The Botha was developed during the mid 1930s in response to Air Ministry Specification M.15/35 , and was ordered straight off the drawing board alongside the ...
A Blackburn Botha. The squadron started the war flying the Anson. In June 1940, it began the process of transferring to the Blackburn Botha torpedo bomber, being the only squadron to use this type operationally. The Botha was found to be unsatisfactory, and by December 1940 the squadron was using its Avro Ansons again.
Pages in category "Blackburn aircraft" The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total. ... Blackburn Botha; Blackburn Buccaneer; C. Blackburn C.A.15C ...
During WW2 aircraft maintenance units tried using this airfield for storage purposes but apparently it was often water-logged. There is a story that six Blackburn Botha types flown in to Ansty from Hawarden in February 1940 may have sunk in so deep they were never rescued. [5] 5 March 1941
Blackburn Aircraft was founded by Robert Blackburn and Jessy Blackburn, who built his first aircraft in Leeds in 1908 with the company's Olympia Works at Roundhay opening in 1914. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Blackburn Aeroplane & Motor Company was created in 1914 [ 3 ] and established in a new factory at Brough , East Riding of Yorkshire in 1916. [ 4 ]
[8] [9] [10] The competing torpedo bomber entry from Blackburn was also ordered as the Blackburn Botha; in an unprecedented step, both designs were ordered straight off the drawing board, an indication of how urgently the RAF needed a new torpedo bomber. [8] [N 1] 320 Beauforts were ordered.
4 August 1942, Royal Air Force, Blackburn Botha (registration: L6314) crashed landed near RAF Andreas 2 miles North of Ramsey after one of the engines failed, killing the two crew. [13] 21 September 1942, Royal Air Force, Lockheed Hudson (registration: AM608) crashed into Slieau Freoaghane killing all six crew. [14] [15]
Blackburn B-2 (RAF) to 1942, most used by civilian training schools; Blackburn Botha (RAF) RAF target tug, retired 1944; Blackburn Shark (FAA) after withdrawn from use as torpedo bomber; Boulton Paul Defiant (RAF) gunnery trainer from 1942 to 1945; Boulton Paul Overstrand (RAF) obsolete bomber used as gunnery trainer to 1941