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Boulton Paul Production

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Low Volume Production

This page covers Boulton Paul aircraft with low production volumes and/or registration/serial allocations. For higher volume production, see the individual type production list.

P.3 Bobolink Single seat biplane fighter to Specification A.1a. One 230 h.p. Bentley B.R.2 rotary powerplant.
P.5 Hawk Single seat biplane fighter to Specification A.1a. One 230 h.p. Bentley B.R.2 rotary powerplant?
P.8 Atlantic
  		7 passenger biplane airliner, though the first prototype was built as a 3 seat trans-Atlantic competition machine. Derived from the P.7 Bourges Mk.IB. Two 450 h.p. Napier Lion W-12 powerplants.
P.10
  		Two seat biplane built to develop techniques for the construction of all steel aircraft. It is also notable for its first use of plastic as a structural material. One 100 h.p. Cosmos Lucifer powerplant.
P.12 Bodmin
 
 
  		3/4 seat biplane designed to Specifications 9/20 (originally DofR Type 3) for a medium range postal aircraft, and Specification 11/20 for medium range bomber/reconnaissance conversion of the postal aircraft. Two 450 h.p. Napier Lion water cooled W-12 powerplants, each mounted in a fuselage engine room and with tandem pairs of tractor and pusher airscrews mounted between the wings.
P.15 Bolton
  		3 seat reconnaissance biplane to Specification 4/20, effectively a steel framed version of the P.7 Bourges. Two 450 h.p. Napier Lion W-12 powerplants.
P.31 Bittern Single-seat cantilever wing night fighter to Specification 27/24. Two 230 h.p. Armstrong Siddeley Lynx powerplants. 
P.32 3/4 seat long range night bomber to Specification B.22/27. Three 575 h.p. Bristol Jupiter XFBM powerplants.
P.33 Partridge Single seat biplane fighter to Specification F.9/26. One 440 h.p. Bristol Jupiter VII powerplant.
P.41 Phoenix
  		Two seat all wood parasol monoplane. One 40 h.p. ABC Scorpion powerplant. Rebuilt as the Phoenix II featuring a spot welded steel fuselage frame, revise struts and undercarriage. One 40 h.p. Salmson AD.9 powerplant.



P.3 Bobolink

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Serial Range C/n Batch Qty Conv. Canc'd Notes
 3 aircraft ordered from the Aircraft Department of Boulton and Paul Ltd, Mousehold, Norwich, Norfolk, to contract A.S.37485. First flew (January?) 1918.
 C8655 - C8657    1    2  C8656, C8657 cancelled
  Total Production 1   2  



P.5 Hawk

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Serial Range C/n Batch Qty Conv. Canc'd Notes
 3 aircraft ordered from the Aircraft Department of Boulton and Paul Ltd, Mousehold, Norwich, Norfolk. Cancelled.
 C8652 - C8654        3  
  Total Production     3  



P.8 Atlantic

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C/n Initial Registration Notes
 2 aircraft built by the Aircraft Department of Boulton and Paul Ltd, Mousehold, Norwich, Norfolk.
 P.8/1  (none)  Built from Bourges F2904. First flew April 1919, but crashed on maiden flight.
 P.8/2  G-EAPE  First flew May 1920. Retained by Boulton and Paul Ltd and used for experimental flying only.
Total Production   2



P.10

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C/n Initial Registration Notes
 1 aircraft built by the Aircraft Department of Boulton and Paul Ltd, Mousehold, Norwich, Norfolk. Presumed not flown.
 (none)  (none)  
Total Production   1



P.12 Bodmin

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Serial Range C/n Batch Qty Conv. Canc'd Notes
 2 aircraft ordered from the Aircraft Department of Boulton and Paul Ltd, Mousehold, Norwich, Norfolk, to contract 305919/20.
 J6910 - J6911    2      J6910, to Specification 9/20, first flew July 1922. J6911, to Specification 11/20, first flew July 1925.
  Total Production 2      



P.15 Bolton

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Serial Range C/n Batch Qty Conv. Canc'd Notes
 1 aircraft ordered from the Aircraft Department of Boulton and Paul Ltd, Mousehold, Norwich, Norfolk, to contract 232562/20. First flew November 1922.
 J6584    1      
  Total Production 1      



P.31 Bittern

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Serial Range C/n Batch Qty Conv. Canc'd Notes
 2 aircraft ordered from the Aircraft Department of Boulton and Paul Ltd, Mousehold, Norwich, Norfolk, to contract 617051/25. First flew 1927.
 J7936 - J7937    2      
  Total Production 2      



P.32

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Serial Range C/n Batch Qty Conv. Canc'd Notes
 1 aircraft ordered from the Aircraft Department of Boulton and Paul Ltd, Mousehold, Norwich, Norfolk, to contract 6796097/27. First flew October 1931.
 J9950    1      
  Total Production 1      



P.33 Partridge

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Serial Range C/n Batch Qty Conv. Canc'd Notes
 1 aircraft ordered from the Aircraft Department of Boulton and Paul Ltd, Mousehold, Norwich, Norfolk, to contract 693450/26. First flew 1928.
 J8459    1      
  Total Production 1      



P.41 Phoenix

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C/n Initial Registration Notes
 1 aircraft built by the Aircraft Department of Boulton and Paul Ltd, Mousehold, Norwich, Norfolk. First flew July 1929.
 P.41/1  G-AAIT Retained by Boulton & Paul for full-scale aerodynamic research. Rebuilt as the Phoenix II. First flew as such June 1930.
Total Production   1


Production References
  1. Boulton Paul Aircraft Since 1915, Alec Brew (Putnam, 1993)
  2. Royal Air Force Aircraft J1 - J9999, RAF Aircraft Register Series (Air-Britain Publications, 1987)

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