Bristol Beaufighter - Survivors

Survivors

  • The National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio has completed the restoration of a rare Beaufighter Mk I. The aircraft is displayed as the USAAF Beaufighter flown by Capt. Harold Augspurger, commander of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron, who shot down an He 111 carrying German staff officers in September 1944. The Beaufighter went on display on 18 October 2006.
  • The National Museum of Flight at East Fortune Airfield, east of Edinburgh, has a Beaufighter TF X (RD220). It is currently on display under restoration.
  • The Royal Air Force Museum in London, UK has Beaufighter TF X, RD253, on display along with a Bristol Hercules engine. This aircraft flew with Portuguese Air Force as BF-13 in the late 1940s. It was used as an instructional airframe before its return to the UK in 1965. Restoration was completed in 1968, using components scavenged from a wide variety of sources.
  • The Canada Aviation Museum presently is storing Beaufighter TF X RAF serial RD867 for future restoration. The museum aircraft is a semi-complete RAF restoration with no engines, cowlings or internal components, received in exchange for a Bristol Bolingbroke on 10 September 1969.
  • A privately owned Beaufighter Mk XIc A19-144 is currently undergoing a lengthy restoration in the UK.
  • There are two Beaufighter Mk XXI aircraft on static display in museums in Australia, one at Moorabbin Airport, Melbourne, Australia. and the other at Camden.
  • The Midland Air Museum, Coventry, England has a Beaufighter cockpit section on public display. It's identity is thought possibly to be T5298.
  • The wreck of an Beaufighter (probably a MK IC) flown by Sgt Donald Frazie and navigator Sgt Sandery of RAF 272 Squadron was identified about half a mile off the north coast of Malta in waters 38 m deep, in 2005. The account of the crash in which both crew survived can be found in official records

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