Fairey Battle

The Battle will be remembered for the attacks on the bridges at Maastricht and Sedan following the German invasion in May 1940. However, all the surviving examples have a less heroic story:

• N2188: Recovered from a swamp at Port Pirie at the South Australian Historical (RAAF) Aviation Museum Inc., Port Adelaide.
  
• P2234: At one time with Tex La Vallee, Quebec (RCAF 1317)
  
• R3950 Brussels Air Museum (RCAF 1899)
  
• R7384 Canadian National Aviation Museum, Rockcliffe (RCAF)
  
• L5306 Canadian Museum of Flight & Transportation , Langley, BC
  
• L5343 at the RAF Museum Hendon was delivered to the RAF in 1939. As part of 98 Squadron, it was flown to Iceland for ‘Operation Frigidaire’. The Battles were intended for coastal patrol duties and for bombing any German invasion fleet should Iceland be attacked; the first operational patrols were flown in August 1940. It crashed in September 1940 - the crew survived but the plane was finally destroyed. In 1972, the decision made to recover the remains of L5343 as the basis of a Battle restoration project. The starboard wing was very badly damaged and there was no wing centre section. The restoration was finished in 2008.