Fairey Battle, part one

The Fairey Battle was a British single-engine light bomber which was designed and manufactured by Fairey Aviation Company. It was developed during the mid 1930s as a monoplane successor to the Hawker Hart and Hawker Hind biplanes.
As by late-1940 the type had been relegated to training roles, it was used by many countries. The ones we're covering today are Australia and Canada.

• Australia: The Battle served as a trainer with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). On 30th April 1940 the first Battles were delivered to the No.1 Aircraft Depot to be reassembled and by 29th June, they were already flying. Deliveries took place at a steady pace until 7th December 1943 when the last one was received. The ones delivered were Battle TT, a mixture of bomber, target-tug and trainer as they could carry bombs, had towing equipment and dual controls. They were used by Bombing and Gunnery schools until 1945 with the last one being withdrawn from service in 1949.
• Canada: In as early as August 1939 the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) received the first delivery of eight Battles at RCAF Station Borden, Ontario. Eventually a total of 802 Battles were delivered from the United Kingdom to serve in various roles and configurations such as dual-control trainers, target-tugs and gunnery trainers for both Bombing and Gunnery schools of the Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Some of them were of the IT variant, which featured a Bristol turret for gunnery training. The Canadians gradually stopped using the Battle as more advanced trainers were introduced like the Bristol Bolingbroke and the North American Harvard. The Battle remained in active with the RCAF until shortly after the end of the war in 1945.
  Oddly enough, a single Battle was fitted with a 840 hp Wright Cyclone R-1820-G38 radial engine in October 1940. This was made as a stopgap conversion just in case the supply of Rolls-Royce Merlin engine (the one that powered the Battle) were unavailable. This single machine was labelled as Fairey Battle IIT.

Sources:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Battle

2. http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a22.htm

3. https://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/aircraft/fairey-battle/
4. http://silverhawkauthor.com/canadian-warplanes-4-the-second-world-war-fairey-battle_720.html