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List of surviving Hawker Hurricanes

Summary

The Hawker Hurricane is a British single-seat fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and many other Allied countries throughout the Second World War. Replaced by newer designs later on during the Second World War, it has not survived as well as its contemporary, the Supermarine Spitfire.

Hurricane Mk.I (R4118), a Hurricane from the 1940 Battle of Britain, still flying

Over 14,583 Hurricanes were built and at least 16 survive in airworthy condition worldwide, with other non-flying examples preserved by various air museums.

Hawker Hurricanes edit

Australia edit

Airworthy edit

  • Hurricane Mk.XII 5481 (registered C-FDNL) was imported from Canada in early 2014 and was returned to airworthy status, for a private owner, by Pay's Air Service at Scone, NSW. It made its first flight in Australia on 2 October 2016.[1]

Belgium edit

On display edit

Czech Republic edit

Airworthy edit

 
The last remaining airworthy Mark IV at Točná airport, before its crash in August 2022
  • Hurricane Mk.IV KZ321 (previously registered G-HURY and CF-TPM) was the last surviving airworthy Mark IV. Built in the Kingston upon Thames factory in 1942, it served with No. 6 Squadron RAF in Grottaglie, Italy, and other squadrons in Greece and Yugoslavia. Abandoned in Palestine in 1947, the aircraft was returned to the UK in 1983. It was acquired by the Vintage Wings of Canada Collection, Gatineau, Quebec in 2006. This was sold in March 2018 and registered OO-HUR[3] to Flying Aces Services & Training, making its first flight in Belgium on Sunday evening, 4 November 2018 at the Brasschaat Airfield.[4] The plane has been sold to a private owner in the Czech Republic and restored with RAF livery JX-E commemorating Hurricane Mk.IIc of famous Czech WWII flying ace Karel Kuttelwascher. On June 14, 2021, the plane landed at Točná airport near Prague where it expanded the collection of airworthy historical aircraft under the registration OO-HUR.[5] The plane crashed during Cheb Aviation Days on August 14, 2022, killing pilot Petr Paces.[6][7][8][9]

Canada edit

Airworthy edit

On display edit

  • Hurricane Mk.XII 5389 owned by the City of Calgary and on display at The Hangar Flight Museum. Restoration by the Calgary Mosquito Aircraft Society was completed in October 2019. The aircraft will soon have taxi-able status with a Packard Merlin 29 engine. The restoration work on the airframe is subcontracted out to Historic Aviation Services of Wetaskiwin, Alberta. During WWII this aircraft was assigned to No. 133 (Fighter) Squadron based at RCAF Station Boundary Bay, British Columbia for home defense.
  • Hurricane Mk.XII 5461 is an airframe reconstructed around an original partial nose section, with many replica components (painted as "YO-J", No. 401 Squadron RCAF markings) on display at The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, Brandon, Manitoba.
  • Hurricane Mk.XII 5584 is on display at the Canadian Aviation Museum, Ottawa, Ontario.

Stored or under restoration edit

  • Hurricane Mk.XII RCAF 5447 [registered as C-GGAJ], manufactured in 1942 by Canadian Car and Foundry, now owned by Vintage Wings of Canada, Gatineau, Quebec. Currently under restoration to represent LE-A as flown by F/O Willie McKnight. 5447 was struck off charge from RCAF in 1946.

In the inventory of Harry Whereatt Collection, Assiniboia, Saskatchewan, 1971

Assigned civil registration: C-GGAJ April 7, 2000

Restoration complete July 2000

Owned by Harry Whereatt, Assiniboia, Saskatchewan, 1988–2006. Vintage Wings acquired it from aircraft restorer Harry Whereatt of Assiniboia, Saskatchewan in 2006. Its most recent markings were stripped, to be replaced as Hurricane LE-A of 242 RAF - Canadian Squadron[10]

France edit

Airworthy edit

  • Hurricane Mk.IIa P3351 (registered F-AZXR, formerly ZK-TPK) was originally a Mk.I P3351. It was delivered to the RAF, and crashed near Prestwick on 21 July 1940. Rebuilt as Mk.IIa DR393, the aircraft was delivered to the Soviet Air Force in May 1941, serving for about two years before crashing near Murmansk, Russia in 1943. The hulk was eventually restored as a Mk.IIc in the UK from 1992 to 1995. It was transferred to New Zealand in 1995, and acquired by the New Zealand Fighter Pilots Museum, being rebuilt in its original identity as P3351 in Wānaka, New Zealand. Its first flight after restoration occurred in Christchurch on 12 January 2000.[11] On 10 February 2013, it was bought by Jan Roozen from the Alpine Fighter Collection via Platinum Fighter Sales and shipped to France; it arrived at Le Havre on 30 March and was taken to Aero Restoration Service at Dijon for re-assembly; it was registered as F-AZXR on 14 May 2013.[12]

Finland edit

On display edit

India edit

On display edit

  • Hurricane displayed as Mk.IIa AP832, and later AB832, though these serials have never been allocated[13] (the former is in a deliberate blank block between Hurricane Mk.IIb's, and the latter is a deliberate blank block between Spitfire serials). The actual Mark of Hurricane is also in question (it is possibly Canadian built Mk.I P5202,[14] but has the armored radiator of a Mk.IV, and the oil deflector ring of a Mk.II or later). The heritage of this aircraft and how it came to be in India is unknown, but it has been on display at the Indian Air Force Museum, Palam, New Delhi since 1975.[15]

Stored or under restoration edit

  • In 2021, the Indian Air Force Museum, Palam acquired a second Hurricane, a Mk.IIB, BN225, previously on outdoor display at the Police Academy at Moradabad. The aircraft was modified for outdoor display but its structure survives. The aircraft will require restoration to display standard.[16]

Malta edit

 
Hawker Hurricane IIa Z3055 on display at the Malta Aviation Museum

On display edit

  • Hurricane Mk.IIa Z3055 was ditched off the coast of Malta on 9 July 1941. It was recovered on 19 July 1995, and restored to static display condition. It is on display at the Malta Aviation Museum, Takali Airfield, Malta.[17]

Russia edit

 
Hawker Hurricane IIB BN233 Vadim Zadorozhny Technical Museum, Krasnogorsky, Moscow

On display edit

  • Hurricane Mk.IIc BM959 is a war memorial at Revda, 200 miles (320 km) from Murmansk in northern Russia.
  • Hurricane Mk.IIb BN233 is at the Vadim Zadorozhny Museum of Technology, Krasnogorsky, near Moscow.

Serbia edit

On display edit

South Africa edit

On display edit

United Kingdom edit

 
Canadian-built Hurricane Mk.XII painted to represent Hurricane Mk.IIb Z5140 of No. 126 Squadron RAF
 
BE505 of Aerial Collective Duxford and Hurricane Heritage at North Weald, England, prior to its conversion to the world's only two-seat Hurricane.

Airworthy edit

  • Hurricane Mk.I P2902 (registered G-ROBT), recovered wreck that crashed 31 May 1940 near Dunkirk.[18][19]
  • Hurricane Mk.I P3717 (registered G-HITT), recovered wreck from Russia, since traced to have Battle of Britain history.[18]
  • Hurricane Mk.I R4118 (one of the last flying Battle of Britain veterans; registered G-HUPW) is privately owned by Hurricane Heritage but since 2015 kept within the hangars of the Shuttleworth Collection[20] (restored in 2004 by Hawker Restorations Ltd in the UK). Delivered new to No. 605 Squadron RAF at Drem on 17 August 1940. During the Battle of Britain, it flew 49 sorties from Croydon and shot down five enemy aircraft. Upon completion of its RAF service, it was sent to India as a training aircraft in December 1943, where it remained intact and in its packing crates until being struck off charge in 1947, after which it was sent to the Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Banaras Hindu University as an instructional airframe. Discovered in 1981 by Peter Vacher, returned to the UK in 2001 and restored to flying status, marking its first post-restoration flight (in nearly 60 years) on December 23, 2004. The aircraft is maintained by Duxford-based Aircraft Restoration Company.
  • Hurricane Mk.XII P3700 (registered G-HURI), Canadian-built Hurricane Mk.XII, painted in 2015 to represent a Hurricane Mk.I RF-E No. 303 Squadron RAF and operated by the Historic Aircraft Collection, Duxford, Cambridgeshire.[18]
  • Hurricane Mk.IIc LF363 is operated by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire.[18]
  • Hurricane Mk.IIc PZ865, the last Hurricane built, operated by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire.[18]
  • Hurricane Mk.IIb BE505 (registered G-HHII), the last flying "Hurribomber", Originally restored in 2005 by Hawker Restorations Ltd in the UK, now the world's only two-seat Hurricane and is now maintained by Duxford-based Aircraft Restoration Company.[21]
  • Hurricane Mk.I V7497 (registered G-HRLI), recovered wreck that crashed 28 September 1940 operating with No. 501 Squadron RAF[18] was restored by Hawker Restorations Limited of Sudbury, Suffolk. Returned to airworthy status on 30 August 2018 and now maintained by Duxford-based Aircraft Restoration Company.[22]

On display edit

Stored or under restoration edit

  • Hurricane Mk.IV KZ191 last operated by the Israeli Defence Force, privately owned in Berkshire.[18]
  • Hurricane Mk.IIb Z5207 (registered G-BYDL), a former Russian aircraft, is privately owned and stored in Gloucestershire.[23]
  • Hurricane Mk.XII (registered G-CBOE), a Canadian-built aircraft operated by the RCAF as 5487 and crashed in 1942 is privately owned in Hampshire.[18]
  • Hurricane Mk.IIb BH238, the wreck of a former Russian aircraft, is privately owned and stored on the Isle of Wight.[18]
  • Hurricane Mk.I L1639 of No. 85 Squadron RAF from Battle of France is being restored to airworthy condition by Cambridge Bomber and Fighter Society at Little Gransden Airfield in Cambridgeshire.
 
Hawker Hurricane Mk.XII, registration N6RW.

United States edit

 
Hawker Hurricane Mk.IIc LF686 at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA.
 
Hawker Hurricane at the Pima Air & Space Museum

Airworthy edit

On Display / In Storage edit

Hawker Sea Hurricanes edit

Germany edit

Airworthy edit

  • Sea Hurricane Mk.XIIA BW874 Operated by Meier Motors at Bremgarten[failed verification] in Munich[30]

United Kingdom edit

Airworthy edit

  • Sea Hurricane Mk.Ib Z7015 (registered G-BKTH) operated by Shuttleworth Collection Old Warden, England. Former service with 759 and 880 Naval Air Squadrons of the Fleet Air Arm.[18]
  • Sea Hurricane Mk.X AE977 (registered G-CHTK) painted as 'P2921' / 'GZ-L' based at Biggin Hill Airport, London, England.[31]

United States edit

Airworthy edit

See also edit

References edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ "Aviation Spotters Online on Facebook". Facebook. Archived from the original on 30 April 2022.[user-generated source]
  2. ^ "Hurricane/LF658". Retrieved 8 September 2009.
  3. ^ Airport Data OO-HUR, Retrieved 24 April 2020
  4. ^ "FAST Aero - Flying Aces Services & Training BVBA on Facebook". Facebook. Archived from the original on 30 April 2022.[user-generated source]
  5. ^ [url=https://www.tocna.cz/hawker-hurricane?lang=en]
  6. ^ "Hawker Hurricane Crashes at Cheb Aviation Days".
  7. ^ "Accident Hawker Hurricane Mk IV OO-HUR, 14 Aug 2022".
  8. ^ "Pilot in Cheb dies after crashing into house during air show". 14 August 2022.
  9. ^ A video documenting the KZ321 (OO-HUR) crash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osKN1Sj1jYs
  10. ^ "The F/O William Lidstone McKnight Hawker Hurricane XII > Vintage Wings of Canada". www.vintagewings.ca. Archived from the original on 17 October 2014.
  11. ^ "Hurricane/P3351". Retrieved 10 September 2009.
  12. ^ Flypast Magazine February 2014
  13. ^ "Home". ukserials.com.
  14. ^ "Hawker Hurricane IIB, P5202 / 41H/4206, Indian Air Force".
  15. ^ "Hurricane/AB832". Retrieved 10 September 2009.
  16. ^ http://www.warbirds.in/uttarpradesh/438-the-moradabad-hawker-hurricane-iib.html and http://www.warbirds.in/news/440-the-moradabad-hurricane-iib-now-in-delhi.html
  17. ^ "Hurricane/Z3055". Retrieved 10 September 2009.
  18. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Ellis 2008, p. 27–267
  19. ^ "Hawker Hurricane, shot down over Channel, is back in the air". ITV News. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  20. ^ "R4118". Archived from the original on 23 January 2016. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  21. ^ "Hawker Hurricane G-HHII Two Seat Conversion | | World Leaders in Hurricane Restoration".
  22. ^ "Hurricane V7497 flies again". Aeroplane. 45, Number 10 (October 2018). Stamford: Key Publishing: 8.
  23. ^ Ellis 2008, p. 59
  24. ^ Bergmann, Roland. "Aircraft N96RW Profile". 1941 Canadian Car & Foundry Hurricane Mk. II. Airport-Data.Com. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  25. ^ "Aircraft Inquiry". Federal Aviation Administration Aircraft Inquiry. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  26. ^ "About | Dakota Territory Air Museum". Dakota Territory Air Museum. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  27. ^ "The Guide Book to the World's Surviving Hawker Hurricanes". The Hodgkinson Home Page. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  28. ^ "Hawker Hurricane Mk. IIa". The National Museum of the United States Air Force. Archived from the original on 4 April 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  29. ^ "Hawker Hurricane Registry - A Warbirds Resource Group Site". www.warbirdregistry.org. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  30. ^ a b "The Guide Book to the Worlds Surviving Hawker Hurricanes around the world".
  31. ^ "Aerial Visuals - Airframe Dossier - Hawker Sea Hurricane X, s/N AE977 RN, c/N CCF/41H/8020, c/R G-CHTK".
  32. ^ "Hawker Restorations Limited Restoration of Hurricane G-ROBT".

Bibliography edit

  • Ellis, Ken (2008). Wrecks and Relics. Manchester: Crecy Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85979-134-2.

External links edit

 
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