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Blenheim Mark I Recognition Model

Aircraft & Exhibits, Cosford, Hangar Two, 65/M/196

This is a British-made model of a Second World War Blenheim Mk I light bomber used to train RAF personnel, particularly pilots, gunners and members of the Observer Corps, in the vital skill of aircraft recognition.

Model of an aircraft in camouflage with a blue and red roundel on each wing, © RAF Museum

Blenheims: 601 Squadron

Film & Sound, FC79/114

Amateur film taken from a Blenheim, showing Blenheim aircraft of 601 Squadron on the ground, taxiing, taking off and flying in formation over coastline before approaching to land over houses.

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Bristol Blenheim Mk. I of 25 Squadron, being refuelled at RAF Hornchurch, 11 August 1939

Photographs, In Storage, PC98/173/5876/9

This photograph is from the last major British peacetime exercise held by the RAF. Between 8 and 11 August 1939 over 1,300 aircraft had taken part in drills in the skies of south-east England. At the end of the exercise a civilian ‘blackout’ had been ordered.

Black and white photograph of RAF Groundcrew in a gas mask working in front of a Bristol Blenheim aircraft, Royal Air Force Museum, Charles Brown Collection / u00a9 RAF Museum, Charles Brown Collection