Survivor

摘要

From the 1,064 made, only one complete and original Boulton Paul Defiant exists today. Built by Boulton Paul at its Pendeford factory in Wolverhampton in February 1938, Defiant Mk.Ⅰ N1671 was the 179th production aircraft, and fitted with a Rolls-Royce Merlin Ⅲ engine. Taken on charge by 6 Maintenance Unit at Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, it was issued to the Polish 307 Lwowski Squadron at Kirton-on-Lindsey, Lines, on September 17, 1940. In an unusual incident, while being flown by Sgt Dukszte on December 18 of that year, it was fired on by one of the vessels it was defending during a shipping protection operation over the Irish Sea. It entered long-term storage at Hullavington, Wiltshire, in late 1942, where it remained until the RAF's Air Historical Branch requested a Battle of Britain-era Defiant for museum display.