The Guide Book to the Worlds Surviving Hawker Hurricanes

The Hawker Hurricane - the RAF's forgotten fighter star of the Battle of Britain.

"Uneven Odds"
by Robert Taylor
From the Military Gallery
Queens Parade Place, Bath,
BA1 1NN, England

The Guide Book to the World's Surviving Hawker Hurricanes

I am always interested in confirmation of the current status of the aircraft listed or any others I am not aware of. If anyone out there has any comments on the Hurricanes still in existence and how they are displayed, please send me an e-mail and I will expand the listing.

Where are they now? Hurricanes may(or may not !!) be at the following locations in the United Kingdom.
Warning ---- Remember that some are not on show to the public, may be on loan or have moved on.

RAF Museum, Hendon - Aug 2004

Hurricane – (full size model BAPC205) displayed as 174 Sqn. Colours "BE421" “XP-G” at Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon, near London.

Hurricane – (full size model BAPC218 ) displayed as 43 Sqn. Colours "BN230" “FT-A” at RAF Bentley Priory, near Harrow, Greater London. (Was previously “P3386” “FT-I”.) See also BN230 at RAF Manston.

Hurricane – (full size model BAPC219) - "L1710" "AL-D" – RAF Memorial Chapel, Biggin Hill Airport, near London.

Hurricane – (full size model BAPC223) "V7467" “LE-D” – in 242 Sqn. colours at RAF Coltishall, Norfolk.

Hurricane – (full size model BAPC267) "R4115" "LE-X" – at the Imperial War Museum Collection, Duxford Aerodrome. The plane is in 242 Sqn. colours. Previously at the Imperial War Museum, South Lambeth, London. (Was on display at the National Museum and Gallery, Cardiff from August 2001 and February 2002.)

Hurricane (full size model BAPC265 or BAPC-254?) - “P3873” “YO-H” is at the Yorkshire Air Museum, Halifax Way, Elvington, York. The Hurricane replica (unveiled 20 August 2000) was made gate guardian on 8 October 2000. The replica is painted as Royal Canadian Air Force Hurricane Mk. 1 P3873 which was flown by the Museum's Canada branch patron, Hartland de M Molson.

	Hurricane – (full size model BAPC288) "V7467" "LE-D" is at the Wonderland Pleasure Park, White Post lsland, Farnsfield, near Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
Copyright Acknowledged - David Chadwick 2005

Hurricane – (full size model BAPC272) "N2532" "GZ-H" – arrived at Kent Battle of Britain Museum, Hawkinge Airfield, Folkestone, Kent in April 2000.
Hurricane – (full size model BAPC273) "P2921" "GZ-L" – arrived at Kent Battle of Britain Museum, Hawkinge Airfield, Folkestone, Kent in April 2000.
Hurricane – (full size model BAPC64 ) "P3059" "SD-N" – Kent Battle of Britain Museum, Hawkinge Airfield, Folkestone, Kent. Was used in the “Battle of Britain” film.
Hurricane – (full size model BAPC63) "P3208" "SD-T" – Kent Battle of Britain Museum, Hawkinge Airfield, Folkestone, Kent. Was used in the “Battle of Britain” film and also previously marked as "L1592".
Hurricane – (full size model BAPC278) "P3679" "GZ-K" – arrived at Kent Battle of Britain Museum, Hawkinge Airfield, Folkestone, Kent in April 2000.
Hurricane – (full size model) "RF-U" in 303 Sqn. Colours – Kent Battle of Britain Museum, Hawkinge Airfield, Folkestone, Kent.

Hurricane – (full size model BAPC68) is under restoration at Hooton Park, Cheshire. The replica was originally built for the film "The Battle of Britain" where it was painted as code "J".

Hurricane – (full size model BAPC236) “P2793” "SD-M" – Eden Camp Modern History Theme Museum, Old Malton, North Yorkshire. The full-size replica arrived in August 1998 to replace the earlier replica which “took flight” during storms of Christmas Eve 1997. The replica was built by TDL Replicas of Lowestoft. The earlier Hurricane (quarter scale? “HU-S”) of July 1993, was a tribute to Battle of Britain pilots and Yorkshireman James Harry 'Ginger' Lacey, Fighter Command's top scoring Battle of Britain pilot.

Hurricane – (full size model BAPC241 ) "L1679" "JX-G" – in 1 Sqn. colours at Tangmere Military Aviation Museum, Chichester, West Sussex. (Was previously at Museum of Army Flying, Middle Wallop.)

Hurricane – (full size model – BAPC72) – “V6799” "SD-X" - Jet Age Museum, Gloucestershire Aviation Collection, Gloucestershire Airport, West Camp, Gloucestershire. Was previously “V7767” – ex battle of Britain film 501 sqn. Colours.

Hurricane I – L1639 - Being restored by the Cambridge Bomber and Fighter Society.

Imperial War Museum, London - Aug 2004

Hurricane I – (excavated remains) - P2725 TM-B Was on temporary exibition at the Imperial War Museum, London . Christopher Bennett, an amateur aviation historian & archaeologist led the team that recovered the remains on the television show “Fighter Plane Dig – Live!”
On 15 September 1940 Flight Sergeant Ray Holmes of No. 504 Squadron used P2725 to destroy a Dornier Do17 bomber over London by ramming but at the loss of his own aircraft (and also almost his own life!) in one of the defining moments of the Battle of Britain.

Parts later melted down and formed into models of the aircraft.

Hurricane – (excavated remains) V6995 North East Aircraft Museum, Old Washington Road, Sunderland. The aircraft crashed in Co. Durham in 1942.

Hurricane I – L1592 "KW-Z" - in 615 Sqn. Colours at the Science Museum, South Kensington, London.

Photo - Science Museum, South Kensington, London - Aug 2004

Hurricane I – (excavated remains) - L1599 - US-C at Thameside Aviation Museum, East Tilbury, Essex. On 24th April 1939, L1599 crashed at Newlands Farm, Margaretting, Essex, whilst on an aerobatic practice flight. A September 1977 dig of the site provided the museum with a number of relics including a Watts two blade propeller boss and a control column spade grip.

Hurricane I – (excavated remains) - P3518 - at Thameside Aviation Museum, East Tilbury, Essex. On 3rd September 1940, P3518 crashed at Ingatestone, Essex, whilst in combat over Chelmsford. A 11th August 1974 dig of the site provided the museum with a number of relics including remains of the Rolls Royce Merlin engine, the gun firing button from the spade grip, engine mounts, the Rotol propeller boss and the makers plate.

Hurricane I – (excavated remains) - P3966 - at Thameside Aviation Museum, East Tilbury, Essex. On 26th August 1940, P3966 crashed into the marshes at Fobbing, Essex, after combat over the Thames Estuary. A January 1988 dig of the site provided the museum with a number of relics including the undercarriage legs, two .303 Browning machine guns, main spar instruments, fabric and wood.

Hurricane I – (excavated remains) - P3234 - TP-E - at Thameside Aviation Museum, East Tilbury, Essex. On 7th September 1940, P3234 crashed at Fritze Farm, Stock, Essex, after combat. A 1983 dig of the site provided the museum with a number of relics including a ballast weight made from lead, some wood from the cockpit area and part of the prop blade.

Hurricane I – (excavated remains) - V7233 - LV-K - is reported at Tangmere Military Aviation Museum, Chichester, West Sussex.. V7233 of 87 Squadron was shot down off Portland Bill on the 11th August 1940.
Are the remains still at Tangmere?

Hurricane I – (excavated remains) - V6685 - at Thameside Aviation Museum, East Tilbury, Essex. On 18th September 1940, V6685 crashed at Margaretting, Essex, after combat. In 1974 and 1987 digs of the site provided the museum with a number of relics including the Rolls Royce Merlin engine complete with the makers plate, undercarriage legs, main spare, rudder pedals, control column, instruments and fabric.

Hurricane I – P2617 "AF-F" at Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon, near London. In 607 Sqn. colours. Was this previously "AF-A" ????

Photo - Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon - Aug 2004

Hurricane I – P3175 (wrecked) at Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon, near London. The remains of a 257 Sqn. aircraft shot down 31 August 1940.

Photo - Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon - Aug 2004

Hurricane I – P2902 G-ROBT - at Hawker Restorations Ltd.of Moat Farm, Church Road, Milden, Suffolk. To be restored as 2-Seater Hurricane?

Hurricane I – V7497 - G-HRLI - at Hawker Restorations Ltd.of Moat Farm, Church Road, Milden, Suffolk. To be restored.

Hurricane I – P3717 - (being restored) – Aquired by Hawker Restorations Ltd of Moat Farm, Church Road, Milden, Suffolk in 2001 to be restored as a two seater. Was originally a Brooklands built Mk.I but was converted to MkIIa (reference DR348) and sent to Russia. Recovered by Jim Pearce in the early 1990’s (Was being restored by the Hurricane and Aircrew Collection, Hinckley, Leicestershire.)

Hurricane I – V7350 – cockpit only – at Brenzett Aeronautical Museum, Romney Marsh, Kent. The 85 Sqn. aircraft crashed on 29/8/1940.

Hurricane I – P3554 – The Air Defence Collection, Shrewton, Salisbury, Wiltshire. The 607 Sqn. aircraft was shot down on 5th. October 1940 and is being restored.

Hurricane I – (excavated remains) - P3179 at Tangmere Military Aviation Museum, Chichester, West Sussex. P3179 was shot down on 30th August 1940 and crashed in a street in Hove, Sussex. A later excavation produced the remains of the plane.

Hurricane I – R4118 UP-W (airworthy) - construction serial G592301 - registered G-HUPW
Returned by owners Peter & Polly Vacher to the UK for renovation to flying condition at Hawker Restorations Ltd from Benares Hindu University, India. First flight after restoration was on 23rd December 2004 at Teversham, Cambridge Airport.
A book detailing the recovery and restoration of R4118 should be available during 2005 - look out for "Hurricane R4118: The Extraordinary Story of the Discovery and Restoration of a Great Battle of Britain Survivor".

Hurricane IIa – Z2389 is being restored to non-flying condition at Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey, having been built and test flown at Brooklands. The aircraft was delivered to the RAF in late 1940. After service with five different Squadrons it was crated and shipped to Russia in April 1942. While serving with the Red Air Force, the Hurricane was shot down over Siberia during a dogfight with two Messerschmitt Me 109Fs and five Me110s. It crash landed on rocky ground in a remote area. The virtually complete but damaged aircraft was taken from Siberia where it was recovered in Summer 1996 to St Petersburg and has now been purchased (for $130,000) for restoration and display.
Brooklands Museum is launching a BROOKLANDS HURRICANE FUND to help meet the cost of presentation, preservation and maintenance of the aircraft. Supporters of this appeal will, for an annual subscription, benefit from special events, a newsletter, exclusive merchandise and access to see the restoration work.

Hurricane IIb – Z5207 - is being restored at Retro Track & Air (UK) Ltd., Cam, Gloucestershire. This Mk IIb was manufactured by Gloster Aircraft in early 1941 and taken to Russia aboard the Aircraft Carrier 'Argus', landing in Russia on 7th September 1941.

Hurricane IIb – (LF363) - "P3878" "YB-W", (airworthy) – at the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, RAF Coningsby, Lincoln.
6/6/2004 When using the markings LF363 “US-C” - at the D-Day 60^th. Anniversary air show at Duxford airfield the plane landed and was taxiing along the airfield when its right wheel collapsed.
Previously restored by Historic Flying Limited, Audley End Aerodrome (1994 -1998).
Previous civil registration G-BWHA.

Hurricane IIb – LF363 “US-C” (airworthy) – at the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, RAF Coningsby, Lincoln. Restored by Historic Flying Limited, Audley End Aerodrome the aircraft is in the colours of 56 Sqn. Previous civil registration G-BWHA.

Hurricane IIb - Z2315 "JU-E" at the Imperial War Museum Collection, Duxford Aerodrome, Cambridgeshire.

Hurricane IIb – BH238 – This Soviet wreck arrived in June 2000 at Airframe Assemblies, Sandown, Ryde, Isle of Wight.

Hurricane IIb – ????? – (being restored) – Aquired by Hawker Restorations Ltd of Moat Farm, Church Road, Milden, Suffolk from Cam, Gloucestershire. Was registered as G-BWHA. The aircraft returned from Russia in 1996. The restoration is to include parts from Z3176 and the wings from Z5053.
Has been refered to as "Z5252" - as of 2005 see entry for Z5252 in Russia, below.

Hurricane IIc – PZ865 (G-AMAU) - (airworthy) – Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, RAF Coningsby, Lincoln.

Hurricane IIc – LF738 "UH-A" - Aerospace Museum , Cosford Airfield, Shropshire (photo - May 2002). Built in 1944 in the final batch of 1,357 aircraft. Using a Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engine and an all metal four 20mm. cannon wing. In 1954 it was the gate guardian at the Battle of Britain Chapel, Biggin Hill. Refurbished in 1969 at St Athan. Refurbished in 1974 at Bicester. Completely restored 1984-1990 by the Royal Aeronautical Society, Medway. Arrived at Cosford in 1995.

Hurricane IIc – "BN230" "FT-A" (originally LF751) – RAF Manston Hurricane & Spitfire Memorial Building, Ramsgate, Kent. LF751 was the basis of a composite including parts from Mk. II Z3687 and Mk.IIc PG593. See also "BN230" at RAF Bentley Priory.

Hurricane IV – P3395 "JX-B" (actually KX829) – Thinktank, the Birmingham Museum of Science and Discovery, Millennium Point Discovery Centre, Birmingham (photo - April 2002). There are some reports of KX829 being at Manchester Museum of Science and Industry - this would appear to date from the plane's enforced holiday from Birmingham between the closure of the Newhall Street site and the opening of the Millennium Point site.This Mark IV has the "universal wing" intended for ground attack activities - being all metal with two .303 machine guns and under wing mountings for 40mm cannon/3inch rockets/bombs. This example came from the eighth batch (1,200 aircraft) of Hurricanes (Mk II & Mk.IV) made at the Langley factory over 1942/3. The engine was a 1,620hp Rolls Royce Merlin 27. The plane is currently in the colours of a Mk.I of No.1 squadron. "P3395" would have been from the third batch (500 aircraft) produced at Brooklands/Kingston/Langley from 21/2/1940 to 20/7/1940 and would probably have seen service in the Battle of Britain. There is a wasp emblem on the port side of the nose.
A plaque on the floor states that 300 Hurricanes were manufactured nearby at the Austin motor car factory at Longbridge - this is not one of them. As an insight into the changes within Europe since the dark days of 1940. The Longbridge car plant was owned in the 1990s by BMW – whose German plants were making aero-engines for the Luftwaffe when Hurricanes were being produced in Birmingham !

Hurricane IV – KZ191 – (part only) Fighter Wing Display Team, North Weald Aerodrome, Essex.

	Hurricane IV – KZ321 "JV-N" – G-HURY currently flying for The Fighter Collection. In the markings of No.6 Squadron on war service in Italy.
Copyright Acknowledged - Mark Ansell 2003

Hurricane X – (excavated remains) - AM280 at Thameside Aviation Museum, East Tilbury, Essex. On 26th November 1942, AM280 and Z5449 both of 3 sqdn., RAF Hunsdon did practice attacks on each other over Essex. During the manoeuvres the two aircraft collided, AM280 crashing at Wermigs Flower Farm, Great Easton and Z5449 crashing at nearby Nevills Farm, Mill End Green. The majority of AM280 was removed during the war and some years after but a 1999 dig of the site provided the museum with a number of relics.

Hurricane XII – (airworthy) actually RCAF 5589 currently displayed in nightfighter colours of 87 Sqn. as "LK-A" by owner Rob Fleming at the Real Aeroplane Museum, Breighton Aerodrome, near Selby, East Yorkshire. (Was previously at Autokraft Ltd, Brooklands displayed as "BE417"- "AE-K" of 402 Squadron – ( G-HURR?)
17th October 2004 - "LK-A" stared in the ITV television police drama series HEARTBEAT.

Hurricane XII (Sea Hurricane ?) –G-TDTW - being restored by Hawker Restorations Ltd. of Moat Farm, Church Road, Milden, Suffolk.

Hurricane XIIa – BW853 - G-BRKE - RCAF No.R30019 Sea Hurricane of 1941 - Hawker Restorations Ltd. of Moat Farm, Church Road, Milden, Suffolk. (used to rebuild BW881 ?)

Hurricane XIIa (Sea Hurricane) – BW881 - G-KAMM -"5429" "Z" - First flight after rebuild was on the 15th March 2006 at Wattisham.
Recovered from a farm in Ontario, Canada – being restored to airworthy condition by Hawker Restorations Ltd.of Moat Farm, Church Road, Milden, Suffolk. Expected at the Flying Heritage Collection of Paul G. Allen (of Microsoft fame) on completion.

Hurricane XIIb – "Z7381" "XR-T" G-HURI – (airworthy) Aircraft Restoration Company (ARCo), Duxford Aerodrome on behalf of the Historic Aircraft Collection Ltd. In the colours of 71 Eagle Sqn.
Jan 2004 - Being re-skinned with a new colour scheme.
The aircraft was built in 1942 in Canada by the Canadian Car and Foundry Company as part of their sixth production batch and in 1943 became Royal Canadian Air Force 5711. Retired from the RCAF in 1947, it was purchased by a group in Saskatchewan, Canada. It was later purchased by the Fighter Collection, restoration by Paul Mercer started in 1985 and flew again in 1989. Acquired in 2002 by the Historic Aircraft Collection.

Sea Hurricane Ib- Z7015 G-BKTH – (airworthy) at the Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden Aerodrome, Old Warden, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire. The aircraft was originally built in Canada by the Canadian Car and Foundry Company in 1940/1941 as a Mk I and delivered to England. In June 1941 it was converted into a Sea Hurricane Ib. On 16th September 1995 the restored plane had its second "first flight" returning to airworthy condition after more than 50 years on the ground.

Where are they now? Hurricanes may(or may not !!) be at the following locations around the world.
Warning ---- Remember that some are not on show to the public, may be on loan or have moved on.

Australia - Sindlinger Hurricane 5/8ths scale flying replica – VH-AFW (C/N 26-10663) marked as “AF-W” of 607 Squadron. Held at the Royal Australian Air Force Association Aviation Heritage Museum (The Bull Creek Collection), Perth, Western Australia. After 28 years as a flight engineer from Comet to Concorde Arthur Winstanley retired in 1981. He decided to earn his pilot's licence and build & fly his own aircraft. Arthur, having purchased Hurricane plans designed by Fred Sindlinger in the United States, started the project in September 1982 in England. He transferred the work to Western Australia when he emigrated three years later. The aircraft was completed after ten years and 7,500 hours work and painted in the colour scheme as AF-W (Arthur's initials) of 607 Squadron for its first flight on 17 March 1993. Sadly Arthur Winstanley died in January 1998 but his fine work has been presented to the Aviation History Museum by Mrs Pam Winstanley.

Belgium - Hurricane IIc – LF345 "ZA-P"(originally delivered to Royal Belgian Air Force as ML-B) is at the Musée Royal de l'Armée et d'Histoire Militaire, North Wing of Le Cinquantenaire, Parc du Cinquantenaire, Brussels. The aircraft has been previously displayed as “LF658” / “ZA-P”.

Canada - Sindlinger Hurricane 5/8ths scale flying replica – picture of Harry Lasachuk's plane from Toronto, Canada.

Canada - Sindlinger Hurricane 5/8ths scale flying replica – "HH-B" at the Alberta Aviation Museum, Calgary, Alberta. (Donated to the museum by Dr. Donald Gower.)

Canada - Hurricane II – Components of BW874 are reported to be at the Jack Arnold Museum, Ontario.
Canada - Hurricane XII – Components of RCAF 5301 & RCAF 5381 are reported to be at the Jack Arnold Museum, Ontario.

Canada - Hurricane IIc – RCAF 5625 is being restored to flying condition by Moore Aviation Restoration (of Campbellville near Toronto, Ontario) and The Tiger Boys. 5625 served with 129 Squadron, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia from January 1943 to September 1944.

Canada - Hurricane XII – "P2970" "US-X" RCAF5481 N678DP (airworthy)
December 2003 - Ed Russell is to home "P2970" at a new flying museum being set up near Niagara South, Ontario,Canada.
Previously owned by David Price was at Commemorative Air Force (Southern California Wing) WWII Aviation Heritage Museum, Camarillo Airport, Camarillo, California.
The aircraft is in the colours of the 56 Squadron Mk II of Pilot Officer (later Wing Commander) Geoffrey Page.

That airframe was lost in the English Channel off Margate during a Battle of Britain dogfight on 12th. August 1940.
The aircraft was previously at the Museum of Flying, Chino, near Santa Monica, California, which closed on 28th. July 2002. The plane was restored by Charles Church in 1991.
Previous civil registration G-ORGI.
The airframe was one of those recovered Jack Arnold of Brantford, Ontario.

Canada - Hurricane XII – RCAF 5389 at the Aerospace Museum, Calgary, Alberta.

Canada - Hurricane XII – RCAF 5418 is reported to be at the Reynolds Aviation Museum, Alberta. Reynolds-Alberta Museum in Wetaskiwin, Alberta features one of the most significant displays of flight memorabilia and restored vintage aircraft in North America. Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame and the Reynolds Aviation Museum participate in this on-site exhibit.

Canada - Hurricane XII – RCAF 5447 owned by Harry Whereatt of Saskatchewan is hoped to be flying again soon. The propeller has been repaired after a mishap at Assinaboia.

Canada - Hurricane XII – RCAF 5584 is part of the National Aeronautical Collection of the National Aviation Museum at Rockcliffe former RCAF Station in Ottawa, Ontario. The aircraft of 1942 was produced in Canada by the Canadian Car and Foundry Company Ltd . The aircraft served with the 163 (Fighter) Squadron [previously 163 (Army Co-operation) Squadron] at RCAF Station Sea Island, British Columbia.

This photograph of the original aircraft
Copyright Acknowledged - Jim Bowser

Canada - Hurricane XII – "YO-A" "P3069" RCAF 5377 registered C-GCWH was at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, at the Hamilton International Airport, Ontario. On 15th. February 1993, a large part of Hangar3 was destroyed by fire. Five aircraft were destroyed in the fire, including C-GCWH. The destroyed original has been replaced by a full size model.
The aircraft had been used in flying sequences of the film "The Battle of Britain".

The plane passed to the Strathallan Aircraft Collection of Sir William Roberts in the colours of "UP-A" of 174 Squadron, RAF.
The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum purchased 5377 in 1984 One of the prime movers of the transfer was the Hon. Hartland de M Molson. In his honour the aircraft was displayed as YO-A, one of the aircraft of the Squadron in which he served during the Battle of Britain.

Canada - Hurricane XII – Components of RCAF 5301 & RCAF 5381 are reported to be at the Jack Arnold Museum, Onario.

Canada - Hurricane II – Components of BW862 are reported to be at the Museum of Flight, British Columbia.
Canada - Hurricane XII – Components of RCAF 5666 are reported to be at the Museum of Flight, British Columbia.

Finland - Hurricane I – HC452 Ex-RAF N2394 (previously HU452?)
January 2004 - HC-452 loaned to the Finnish Aviation Museum at Helsinki/Vantaa Airport for the "Air Defence Victory 1944" exhibition.
This plane is usually at the museum Keski-Suomen Ilmailumuseo, Tikkakosk, Finland. The official museum site is Tikkakoski Finnish Air Force Museum.

France Hurricane I - (excavated remains) of L1685 at 'Musee du Souvenir Militaire de Thierache' at Martigny privately run military museum. On 11^th May 1940 Pilot Officer Paul Richey of No 1 Sqn. was involved in a dog-fight over France, shot down two Me110s and was in turn shot down by other Me110s. PO. Richey landed safely by parachute but L1685 was destroyed on impact. In 2000 the crash site of L1685 was found near Brunehamel, France and later excavation revealed "the Merlin engine, several lumps of wooden Watts two blade propeller, and cockpit items including the gunsight used in the destruction of the 110's and makers identification plate confirming it as Hawker Hurricane MkI L1685". For a detailed report of the crash and recovery visit http://www.sweffling.freeserve.co.uk/richey.htm

India - Hurricane "IIb" – "AB832" is at the INDIAN AIR FORCE MUSEUM, Palam Air Force Station, New Delhi. The airframe is actually P5202, a Canadian-built Mark I, probably the only one surviving.

India - Hurricane - was at Patna, Bihar state. Reported as "a derelict Hurricane on display near a teashop. It was falling to pieces already.." in 1973. Does the airframe still exist?

India - Hurricane I – R4118 (construction serial G592301) WAS at the Benares Hindu University. The aircraft is now registered as G-HUPW by Peter & Polly Vacher in the UK for a much needed renervation.

Malta - Hurricane IIa – "HA-E" Z3055 is currently being restored to taxiable condition at the Aviation Museum, Ta' Qali, a former RAF station (also called "Takali"). August 2003 - Painted by Vintage Fabrics. September 1995 - wreckage was raised from the seabed by the Malta Historic Aircraft Preservation Group. Hawker Aircraft built the plane in 1941 in the 5th production batch with a Merlin XX engine. The aircraft was shipped to Malta but shortly afterwards crashed into the sea off the island on 4 July 1941,when piloted by Sgt. Tom Hackston.

"Hurricanes Over Malta" by Brian Cull & Frederick Galea. (ISBN 1 902304 91 8) published by Grub Street, London, 2001. This book mentions the crash and later recovery. It also contains a black & white copy of a painting, by Rens Biesma, of Z3055.

New Zealand - Hurricane “IIa” – P3351 TP-K - civil registration "ZK-TPK" (airworthy) at Sir Tim Wallis’s Alpine Fighter Collection within the New Zealand Fighter Pilots Museum at Wanaka, South Island, New Zealand. The aircraft is now set up as a Mk. IIa with an eight 0.303 gun wing and is displayed in the colours of TP-K of 73 Squadron as used in France, 1940. The return of this aircraft to flying condition has been a global exercise. The remains of P3351 (Mk. I) and DR393 (Mk. IIb) were found in the Murmansk area of Russia. In 1994 Air NZ Engineering Services in Christchurch, New Zealand refurbished serviceable components, which were then sent to Hawker Restoration Ltd. UK, for airframe restoration. Airframe Assemblies of the Isle of Wight worked on mainplane restoration. The airframe was returned to Christchurch 1995, being completed for its second “first flight” on the 12^th January 2000.

New Zealand - Hurricane – "OK-1" (full size model) is at the Museum of Transport, Technology and Social History (MOTAT), Auckland, New Zealand. Access to the Sir Keith Park Memorial site (Aviation section) is from Motions Rd (off Great North Road, Western Springs, Auckland). You will see the Hawker Hurricane displayed on a pillar outside the aircraft hanger. NOTE that at December 2002 OK-1 is under restoration in New Zealand.

New Zealand - Sindlinger Hurricane 5/8ths scale flying replica – ZK-VYX Owner (Bob Gibson) reports that restoration is now completed and the aircraft can be seen flying most weekends from the Taieri Aero Club in Dunedin, New Zealand.

Portugal - Hurricane (full size model) – “RV+J” is at Museu do Ar (Air Museum), Alverca, Portugal. The Hawker Hurricane fibreglass replica is on display outside the entrance to the museum. The museum may be moving to the Granja do Marquês air force base near Lisbon.

Russia - Hurricane IIb - Z5252 On 13th October 2004 the Hurricane was recovered from its 1942 ditching in a Russian lake. Z5252 was manufactured by Gloster Aircraft at Hucclecote in mid 1941 and delivered to Archangel, Russia later in the year. On 2nd June 1942 Lt. P.P.Markov belly-landed Z5252 on a frozen lake four miles west of Murmansk after suffering combat damage. A salvage team was sent to recover the lightly damaged aircraft but found that it had sunk through the thin ice and declared the airframe unrecoverable.

Z5252 is expected to be restored to flying condition and retained in Russia.
The February 2005 issue of Aeroplane (from which this photo was taken) gives the full story of the plane....

Russia - Hurricane IIc – “BM959” Unveiled as a war memorial at Revda, 200 miles from Murmansk in northern Russia on 1^st. September 1989. The aircraft had been recovered from a crash site near Lov Ozero on the Kola Peninsula, renovated and placed on a concrete plinth with the inscription “To the Fighting Brotherhood of the Allies in the struggle against Fascism during WWII and in the memory of the pilots who did not return from combat and who died in the tundra, mountains, lakes and swamps of the Russian North”. The lightly damaged but weather-beaten plane was discovered with a Merlin XX engine, four 20mm canon and a tropical filter. The photo is taken from “Warbirds Worldwide” journal 30 of September 1994, which includes the story of the recovery of the aircraft.

Russia - Hurricane – “BM959” One or even two Hurricanes were once at the Moscow Museum - are there any there now?

Russia - Hurricane IIb – Z2769 - http://www.barnstormers.com has the following advert .... HURRICANE MK.IIB Z2769 WARBIRD • FOR SALE • Shot down over Northern Russia at February 22, 1943. Great history. Restored in Russia, 90% original, can be easily restored to completely airplane for the cheap cost. Now at Norfolk, Virginia. Contact Oleg Leiko - AVIATION-RESTORATION GROUP located Moscow, Russia • Telephone: +7(095)776-2600 • Fax: +7(095)454-2246 • Posted September 3, 2003 •

Russia - Hurricane – http://www.barnstormers.com has the following advert .... HURRICANE RESTORATION PROJECT • AVAILABLE FOR SALE • Russian expert restoration team has in its disposal the whole complete parts of several recovered Hurricanes and is looking for a customer for the restored planes. Contact Sergei Stepanenko - SSN located Saint-petersburg, Russia • Telephone: +7(812)1789477 • Fax: +7(812)1789477 • Posted July 16, 2003 •

South Africa - Hurricane IIc – LD619 AX-E is at the South African National Museum of Military History, Bloemfontein. This airframe was manufactured in 1943 by Hawker at Langley. The plane went to the RAF in North Africa (and is fitted with a tropical air filter), but was not operational. LD619 was transferred to the South African Air Force in April 1944 as serial number 5285 and unit reference AX-E. The SAAF renovated the aircraft for museum display from May 1950.

South Africa - Hurricane – "ZS-UIP" Is this LD619 at Bloemfontein or a different aircraft?

USA - Hurricane I - P3311 is at Warbird Recovery, 11740 Airport Way, Hangar 36D, Broomfield, Colorado. The aircraft was built in 1940 by Hawker Aircraft. On 27 May 1940 P3311 crashed into the English Channel as Flt. Lt. Lee bailed out after being shot down on a sortie from North Weald. The wreckage of the aircraft was recovered off Dunkirk, to London and in 1995 shipped to Fort Collins, Colorado for Warbird Recovery. Warbird Recovery stated that the plane was to be restored to flying condition.

USA - Hurricane II – “OT-A or DT-A” (owned by Bob Schneider's RRS Aviation of Hawkine, Texas) is on loan to the Cavanaugh Flight Museum, Addison Airport near Dallas, Texas. The plane is a composite of several different airframes, including one that flew in the Battle of Britain. The main donor was built in Canada in 1942 and was based at Bagotville, Quebec. The plane was recovered from its crash into Lake St. Johns, Quebec on 27 March 1944. The completed airframe is finished in the markings of Squadron Leader Stanford Tuck of 257 Squadron.

USA - Hurricane - AM274 is being restored by John Norman. View the restoration on the JNE Aircraft Restoration Services web site.
2003 - John Norman bought the remains of three ex-Russian Hurricanes that were offered for sale by Ed Zalesky's "airplane-supply" of White Rock, British Columbia, Canada.

USA - Hurricane Mark IIb - N68RW - a collection of Hurricane components are being combined to construct an airworthy Hurricane by the Lone Star Flight Museum & Texas Aviation Hall of Fame, Galveston Island, Galveston, Texas. The group took over the components from Leonard Tanner in 1991 and the plane is being restored to airworthiness in Fort Collins, Colorado.

USA - Hurricane IIb AE977 'LE-D' (airworthy) - civil registration N33TF at Tom Friedkin's Cinema Air Organisation at (Planes Of Fame) Chino Airport, California from late 2001. The aircraft (was G-TWTD), Serial No. CC41H/8020, started life as a Sea Hurricane (Mk.X ?), was manufactured in 1940, and operated from Yeovilton in Somerset. It crashed on December 5th 1942 whilst being piloted by Sqn. Ldr. Douglas Trevor King RNVR, was beyond economical repair, was found in 1960 and remained in storage until 1994 when the full restoration programme was initiated. Restored by Hawker Restoration Ltd., Sudbury, Colchester, Suffolk with a First flight 7 June 2000 at Earls Colne.

"The aircraft has been restored on a no-expense spared basis and comes with an A8/20 CAA approved Permit to Fly. Fitted with a freshly overhauled Merlin 225 engine and a zero-houred Hamilton Standard propeller, AE977 is undoubtedly one of the most exciting aircraft and collectors item to be offered for sale." When for sale in January 1999 by P&A Wood, Great Easton, Dunmow, Essex.

USA - Hurricane IIc – LF686 was put on display on 15th. December 2003 at the new National Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center located at Washington Dulles International Airport. Address: 14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway, Chantilly, Virginia, USA
LF686 was rebuilt at the Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility of the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum, Washington, DC.

USA - Hurricane XII – "Z3174" "XR-B" at the US Air Force Museum, Dayton, Ohio. Actually a Canadian built Mk.XII reference 42025/RCAF 5390 but displayed as a Mk. IIa of 71 Squadron, Royal Air Force, one of the "Eagle Squadrons" for Americans serving in the RAF. Was restored by RRS Aviation of Hawkins, Texas, USA in the late 1980’s. Jan 2001 – being restored to airworthy condition (but not to be flown) by Hawker Restoration Ltd.

USA - Hurricane XIIb – RCAF5667 (N2549?) (airworthy) - at the Fighter Factory, Suffolk, Virginia. The aircraft was built by the Canadian Car and Foundry Company Ltd. in 1943 and served until 1946. RCAF5667 was on a farm in Saskatchewan, Canada in a state of dereliction from 1948 until 1965, when it was purchased by an owner in Vancouver, Washington, USA (Neil Rose?)
After restoration the plane flew again on 10^th May 1994.

Later that monthRCAF5667 was damaged in a landing mishap at Yakima, Washington. In 2001 the Fighter Factory were flying the aircraft again.

USA - Hurricane XII - The Fantasy of Flight Museum of Kermit Weeks in Polk City, Florida, has airframe in store awaiting restoration - RCAF5400 (?)

USA - Sindlinger Hurricane 5/8ths scale flying replica – built by Brian Thorpe of St. Augustine, Florida. First flight during 2002. Carl Pascarell has been pictured flying the plane painted in RAF Photo Reconnaissance Unit blue, with the serial letter “T”.

USA - Sindlinger Hurricane 5/8ths scale flying replica – A part completed project advertised for sale in October 2002 from St. Joseph, MI., USA as “Hawker Hurricane Replica (project) Sindlinger 5/8 scale, plans-built all wood warbird replica. I was planning to put in a Chevy 4.3 V6, a very snug fit, but will go in there. A list of items included and some pics can be sent to serious buyers only. $5000.”

USA - Sindlinger Hurricane 5/8ths scale flying replica – a plane, originally built in the 1960s by Fred Sindlinger himself, crashed at South Prairie Airport, Buckley, Washington, USA in August 2001. Sadly, pilot Carl Terrano did not survive the crash and the aircraft was severely damaged (beyond repair?)

USA - Sindlinger Hurricane 5/8ths scale flying replica – in August 2002 the plane of Ron Sturgill was reported to have crashed. The majority of the plane survived but the wing centre-section was reported destroyed.
This picture of the plane of Ron Sturgills from Ohio.

Yugoslavia - Hurricane IV – 9439 or 9539? is at the Yugoslav Aeronautical Museum, Belgrade Airport.

V1.35 - 7 December 2006.