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The Fairey Battle was a British single-engine light bomber built by the Fairey Aviation Company in the late 1930s for the Royal Air Force. The Battle was powered by the same Rolls-Royce Merlin piston engine that gave contemporary British fighters high performance; however, the Battle was weighed down with a three-man crew and a bomb load. Despite being a great improvement on the aircraft that preceded it, by the time it saw action it was slow, limited in range and highly vulnerable to both anti-aircraft fire and fighters with its single defensive .303 machine gun.

Below is a list of Battle airframes that survived military service.

L5340  (?-87)
L5343  (D-11)
N2188  (R-12)
P2183  (?-92)
   P2230  (D-06)
P2234  (?-88)
P3950  (D-12)
   R7384  (D-12)
RCAF2139  (S-92)
RCAF3947  (S-88)
Fairey Battle, K7650 / 63-M of No. 63 Squadron, RAF Benson, November 1939.
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