The Guide Book to the Worlds Surviving Hawker Hurricanes around the world

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

The Guide Book to the World's Surviving Hawker Hurricanes -- around the World

Not only the aircraft but also the Full Scale Models and
(scroll to the bottom) the Sindlinger Hurricane 5/8ths scale flying replica from the USA and Flying Legend Hawker Hurricane 72% Replica from Italy

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 around the world.
Warning ---- Remember that some are not on show to the public, may be on loan or have moved on.

Also have a look HERE for my Hurricane Flickr photo albums.

(Copyright Acknowledged - http://aerodynamicmedia.com/

(Updated Dec 2021)
Australia (Scone, NSW) - Hurricane XII – PO- RCAF 5481 (VH-JFW) “V6748” (airworthy)

At Sewell Airfield on 22 October 2021 reregistered as G-ORGI for Warbird Experiences Ltd based at Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar, UK

Reverse history
2021 - 22 October reregistered as G-ORGI for Warbird Experiences Ltd based at Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar, UK
2016 - returned to flight Australia, Scone, NSW on 2nd October as Hurricane XII – PO- RCAF 5481 (VH-JFW) “V6748”
2014 - The aircraft was housed at Pay's Air Service , Scone, NSW, Australia after arriving from Canada in April
2014 - Platinum Fighter Sales of California,USA have brokered the sale of the aircraft.
December 2003 - Ed Russell is to home "P2970" at the Russell Aviation Group 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. "P2970" "US-X" RCAF5481 N678DP
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 by Jack Arnold of Brantford, Ontario.

(Photograph - Copyright Acknowledged - Aeroplane magazine July 2021)

(Updated 28 June 2021)

--- Now moving --- see "Czech Republic"

Belgium - Hurricane Mk IV (airworthy) – BE150 "JX-E" OO-HUR based at Antwerp Airport.

Previously KZ321 "JV-N" OO-HUR In the markings of No.6 Squadron on war service in Italy.

November 4th 2018 – first Belgian test flight from Brasschaat airfield (near Antwerp) by Frederique Vormezeele.

Previously – KZ321 "JV-N" - C-FTPM is at Vintage Wings of Canada, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.

Previously – KZ321 "JV-N" – G-HURY was flying for The Fighter Collection.

Belgium - Hurricane X – AM274 - (N274JW) - (restoration project) at http://www.fastaero.be/hawker-hurricane-am274/
2014 - May 2nd. - the Vormezeele family took possession of the project. They will be completing the restoration to flying condition and adding it to their collection of other vintage aircraft.
2014 - March - the project was put into containers and put upon a ship for Belgium.
2014 - January- JNE Aircraft, LLC, USA (where the web site holds details of the work so far) sold Hawker Hurricane AM274 N274JW restoration project to the Vormezeele family of Belgium.
2003 - John Norman bought the remains of ex-Russian Hurricanes that were offered for sale by Ed Zalesky's "airplane-supply" of White Rock, British Columbia, Canada.

Belgium - Hurricane IIc – "LF345" "ZA-P"(originally delivered to Royal Belgian Air Force as LF658 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 “LF345” / “ML-B”.
The aircraft has been previously displayed as “LF658” / “ZA-P”.

Canada (Alberta) - Hurricane XII – RCAF 5418 is 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.

(Photograph - Copyright Acknowledged - Richard de Boer Calgary Mosquito Aircraft Preservation Society )

(Updated Nov 2019)

Canada (Alberta) - Hurricane XII – RCAF 5389 FN-M at the Hangar Flight Museum (Formerly the Aero Space Museum of Calgary).

UNVEILING EVENT - November 6th 2019
"We’re celebrating Hawker Hurricane #5389’s return to Calgary This is your chance to learn about Hawker Hurricanes – while Hurricanes are known for their involvement in the Battle of Britain, #5389 was never flown overseas but was used as part of western coastal defense.

Was restored to 'run and taxi' by The Calgary Mosquito Society, Calgary, Alberta.

Canada (British Columbia) - Hurricane XII – RCAF 5666
The airframe is stored for restoration by the Airplane Supply Centre of Zalesky family in White Rock, British Columbia, Canada.

Canada (Manitoba) - Hurricane XII – RCAF 5461 YD-J is being rebuilt at the Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, Brandon Municipal Airport, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. "When we picked this aircraft up all we had was the centre section. Jack Leonard has been working on this aircraft for nearly six years now and will put it in good display condition as soon as he is able to spend some more time on it." The fuselage appeared nearly complete in a workshop photo (Jan 2009.)

Canada (Ontario) - 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.

(Updated January 2022)
Canada (Ontario) - Hurricane I FSM "YO-C" "P3080" FSM – glass fibre - Jackson Park, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

One of two replica fighters that stand as memorials to the members of the RCAF who served during World War II.
Hurricane YO-C, RAF serial number P3080, was assigned to 401 Squadron, the only Canadian Squadron to see combat during the Battle of Britain.
The original aircraft was shot down on 10 September, 1940. The pilot, though wounded, survived.

(Updated October 2015)
Canada (Ontario) - Sea Hurricane Ib / XIIa – BW862 - near Hamilton, Ontario, Canada - (restoration project)
2015 See "Hawker Hurricane Survivors" by Gordon Riley - page 165.

(Updated October 2015)
Canada (Ontario) - Hurricane IIb – Z2892 - near Hamilton, Ontario, Canada - Parts stored for future restoration?
2015 See "Hawker Hurricane Survivors" by Gordon Riley - page 214.

Canada (Ontario) - Hurricane II – Z2330 (restoration project) - near Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
was previously with JNE Aircraft, LLC, Burlington, Washington, USA.

Canada (Ontario) - Hurricane FSM - "V7287" - "YO-Y" The Full Scale Model was placed at The National Air Force Museum of Canada (previously the RCAF Memorial Museum), Trenton, Ontario in 2004.

--- Now removed--- to Pay's Air Service , Scone, NSW, Australia ----

Canada (Ontario) - Hurricane XII – "P2970" "US-X" RCAF5481 C-FDNL (airworthy)
December 2003 - Ed Russell is to home "P2970" at the Russell Aviation Group 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. "P2970" "US-X" RCAF5481 N678DP
The aircraft is in the colours of the 56 Squadron Mk II of Pilot Officer (later Wing Commander) Geoffrey Page.

Platinum Fighter Sales of California,USA have brokered the sale of the aircraft that should be re-located in 2014.

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 by Jack Arnold of Brantford, Ontario.

This photograph of the original aircraft
Copyright Acknowledged - Jim Bowser

Canada (Ontario) - Hurricane XII – "YO-A" "P3069" RCAF 5377 registered C-GCWH
The current Hurricane is a fibreglass replica of a Mark IIB. "The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum acknowledge the generous support of K-W Surplus."
Canada - Hurricane XII – "YO-A" "P3069" RCAF 5377 registered C-GCWH was at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, near the Hamilton International Airport, Mount Hope, 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.

(Photograph - Copyright Acknowledged - Vintage Wings of Canada )

(Updated April 2022)

Canada (Quebec) - Hurricane XII – "P2961" "LE-A" (airworthy) is at Vintage Wings of Canada, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.

At 0900 hrs on Saturday, April 23, 2022 a Hawker Hurricane Mk XII, took to the air after a 16-year restoration

The aircraft has been restored to flying condition as P2961 LE-A
as flown by Alberta native Pilot Officer William “Willie” McKnight of 242 “Canadian” Squadron.

Previously Hurricane XII – RCAF 5447 (composite) AF-W C-GGAJ

Previously owned by Harry Whereatt of Saskatchewan. Airworthy from May 2000 until a mishap at Assinaboia.

Canada (Quebec) - Hurricane IV (airworthy) – KZ321 "JV-N" - C-FTPM --- Now moved --- see "Belgium"
(Updated July 2015)
Canada (Quebec) - Hurricane IV (airworthy) – KZ321 "JV-N" - C-FTPM is at Vintage Wings of Canada, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.
In the markings of No.6 Squadron on war service in Italy.
KZ321 "JV-N" – G-HURY was previously flying for The Fighter Collection.

Canada - Hurricane IIc – RCAF 5711
Canada - Hurricane IIc – RCAF 5547
Canada - Hurricane IIc – RCAF 5424

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.
See ...... "HA-C" RCAF5711 G-HURI (airworthy) Historic Aircraft Collection Ltd. at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford.

(Updated October 2015)
Canada - Hurricane II Components of BW874 – Now see "AG244" RCAF5487 - G-CBOE in Germany.
See "Hawker Hurricane Survivors" by Gordon Riley - page 167.

Canada - Hurricane II – Components of RCAF 5487 are reported to be at the Jack Arnold Museum, Ontario.
OR is RCAF5487 at Classic Aero Engineering, Thruxton, U.K. ?
Canada - Hurricane XII – Components of RCAF 5301 & RCAF 5381 are reported to be at the Jack Arnold Museum, Ontario.

Photograph - Copyright Acknowledged - Tiger Boys Aeroplane Works and Museum )

(Updated May 2021)

Canada - Hurricane replica - what is this haging from the roof?

Located with Tiger Boys Aeroplane Works and Museum at Guelph Airpark, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

--- Crashed at Cheb airshow in the Czech Republic 14 August 2022 --- With sad loss of the Pilot ----

(Photograph - Copyright Acknowledged - Aeroplane magazine July 2021)

(Updated 15 August 2022)
Czech Republic - Canada Hurricane IV (airworthy) – KZ321 "BE150" "JX-E"

in the colours of Karel Kuttlewascher.
- is moving to Tocná Airport, Prague 12, Czech Republic.

Previously – KZ321 "JV-N" OO-HUR to be based at Antwerp Airport.
In the markings of No.6 Squadron on war service in Italy. November 4th 2018 – first Belgian test flight from Brasschaat airfield (near Antwerp) by Frederique Vormezeele.

Previously – KZ321 "JV-N" - C-FTPM is at Vintage Wings of Canada, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.

Previously – KZ321 "JV-N" – G-HURY was flying for The Fighter Collection.

(Updated October 2015)
Croatia (Former Yugoslavia) - Hurricane - a rear frame and tail is on display at the The Technical Museum, Zagreb..
See "Hawker Hurricane Survivors" by Gordon Riley - page 214.

Finland - Hurricane I – HC452 Ex-RAF N2394 (previously HU452?)
This plane is usually stored at the The Aviation Museum of Central Finland (including The Finnish Air Force Museum) in Tikkakosk, Finland. The official museum site is Tikkakoski Finnish Air Force Museum.

2007 - HC-452 displayed at the Finnish War Veteran Accociation 50th anniversary in Helsinki.
2004 - HC-452 loaned to the Finnish Aviation Museum at Helsinki/Vantaa Airport for the "Air Defence Victory 1944" exhibition.

France - Aéroport de Cannes Mandelieu - Now moved --- see "Elmsett Airfield (west of Ipswich), Suffolk, UK"
(Updated July 2022)

Hurricane “IIa” – P3351 (DR393) TP-K "K" - civil registration F-AZXR (airworthy) WAS with the collection of Jan Roozen ---- now at Hawker Restoration Ltd. Elmsett Airfield (west of Ipswich), Suffolk

Reverse history
- 2022 18 July ---- Flew into Hawker Restoration Ltd. from previous owner the collection of Jan Roozen (Aéroport de Cannes Mandelieu, France)
- 2015 May ---- on 25 May 2015 P3351 nosed over at the end of the runway on landing at its base.
- 2013 February ---- Platinum Fighter Sales report "SOLD: Hawker Hurricane IIA P3351 has been sold and is on its way from New Zealand to Europe."
- WAS at Sir Tim Wallis’s Alpine Fighter Collection within the New Zealand Fighter Pilots Museum at Wanaka, South Island, New Zealand - civil registration "ZK-TPK" .
- P3351 (Mk. I) crashed in July 1940 and during repairs was upgraded to Mk. IIb specification and given a new serial number of DR393. 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/DR393 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.

France - (Nord-Pas-de-Calais/Picardie region)
(Updated February 2014)
Hurricane I - (excavated remains) of L1685 at 'Musee du Souvenir Militaire de Thierache', Martigny (Nord-Pas-de-Calais/Picardie region) 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

Germany - Munich
(Photograph - Copyright Acknowledged - www.platinumfighters.com - 2014)

(Updated October 2015)
Hurricane XII "AG244" RCAF5487 - G-CBOE (airworthy) -
Actually BW874
See "Hawker Hurricane Survivors" by Gordon Riley - page 167.

In the colours of Rhodesian Air Force "AG244"

From Phoenix Aero Services (was Classic Aero Engineering) of Thruxton Aerodrome, near Andover, Hampshire.

(Photograph - Copyright Acknowledged - www.platinumfighters.com - 2014)

(Updated June 2015)
Hurricane XII "HC-465" RCAF5487 - G-CBOE
The aircraft used the colours of Finnish Air Force "HC-465" for a 2014 tour of Scandinavia.

ALSO ----
(Photograph - Copyright Acknowledged - Nigel Hitchman - 2022)

(Updated May 2022)
Hurricane IIb – Z5207 - G-BYDL (For restoration) - at Aalen, Germany

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.
Flown off Argus by Sgt (later Wing Commander) Peter John Anson on 7th Sept to Murmansk and from there after during the month of September until he returned to the UK.

Previously was for restoration at Phoenix Aero Services (was Classic Aero Engineering).

Previously at Retro Track & Air (UK) Ltd., Cam, Gloucestershire.

(Updated October 2015)
India - Hurricane "IIb" – "AB832" is at the INDIAN AIR FORCE MUSEUM, Palam Air Force Station, New Delhi.
The airframe could be AP832 or AP932 or P5202
Was then thought to be P5202 – is now thought to be Z7059
2015 See "Hawker Hurricane Survivors" by Gordon Riley - page 152.

(Photograph - Copyright Acknowledged - Jagran - 2021)

(Updated February 2021)
India - Hurricane "IIb" - moving from UP Police Academy in Moradabad to the Indian Air Force Museum
reported via
Hawker Hurricane Survivors – Posts | Facebook
and
Warbirds of India - The Moradabad Hawker Hurricane IIB

Previously reported as "One is at a "military location somewhere in India" ---- awaiting confirmation in "Hawker Hurricane Survivors" by Gordon Riley

(Updated October 2015)
India - Hurricane - V6846 - was at Indian Air Force base at Bihta, Patna, Bihar State in 1966 but gone by 1967.
Later reported as "a derelict Hurricane on display near a teashop. It was falling to pieces already.." in 1973.
No evidence of continued existence.
See "Hawker Hurricane Survivors" by Gordon Riley - page 220.

India - Hurricane I – R4118 (UP-W - construction serial G592301) WAS at the Benares Hindu University, Varanasi, India. The aircraft was registered as G-HUPW by Peter & Polly Vacher and airworthy in the UK.

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.

(Updated October 2015)
Malta - Hurricane IIc – Z3571 - at the Aviation Museum, Ta' Qali, a former RAF station (also called "Takali")
Parts from the crash recovery of the aircraft were used in the restoration of Z3055 - the frame and other parts are displayed at the museum.
2015 See "Hawker Hurricane Survivors" by Gordon Riley - page 214.

New Zealand - Auckland
(Updated February 2014)

Hurricane – (full size model) - "P3854" - "OK-1" - is at the Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT), Western Springs, Auckland, New Zealand.

New Zealand - Blenheim
(Updated February 2014)

Hurricane – (full size model) - "Z5252" marked "01" - is at the Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre, Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand.

"'Z5252 '01' was chosen as it was the first Hurricane to be transferred to the soviet forces on September 25 1941.
Original Hurricane II Z5252 was lost on the 2nd of June 1942 as it force-landed on a lake near Murmansk."

Reverse history
- 2012 - "JS327" of 804 Sqn, Royal Navy. In 1942 Operation Torch - the US led invasion of North Africa - saw the Hurricane carrying US style Stars.
- 2007 - RAF "P2916" -"UP-D"
- "P3142" has also been used.
- "P3854" has also been used.

New Zealand - Wanaka
(Updated February 2014)
Hurricane “IIa” – P3351 (DR393) TP-K - civil registration "ZK-TPK" (airworthy)
Reverse history
--- Now removed--- France - Aéroport de Cannes Mandelieu ----
- 2013 February ---- Platinum Fighter Sales report "SOLD: Hawker Hurricane IIA P3351 has been sold and is on its way from New Zealand to Europe."
- WAS at -------------- Sir Tim Wallis’s "Alpine Fighter Collection" at Wanaka, South Island, New Zealand.

New Zealand - Wanaka
(Updated February 2014)

Hurricane – (full size model) - "P3351" ("TP-K" - marked as "K") - is at the Warbirds & Wheels Museum, Wanaka Airport.

This replica plane has been kindly supplied by Sir Peter Jackson.

Reverse history
- "This replica plane has been kindly supplied by Sir Peter Jackson."
- 2013 - Hurricane “IIa” – P3351 (DR393) TP-K - civil registration "ZK-TPK" (airworthy) that was at Wanaka re-located to France.

Norway - Bodo
(Updated November 2014)

Hurricane - (full size model) BD734 FN-D - is at the Norwegian Aviation Museum, Bodo, Norway.

Norway - Bodo
(Updated October 2015)
Hurricane Mk I - L1988 - recovered wreck is stored at the Norwegian Aviation Museum, Bodo, Norway.
See "Hawker Hurricane Survivors" by Gordon Riley - page 23.

Poland - Hurricane (full size model) – "V6684" - “RF-F” is at the Museum-Studio of Arkady Fiedler, Puszczykowo near Poznan, Poland.

The Hawker Hurricane replica "19.09.2011 - was officially unveiled Hurricane in the Garden of Cultures and Tolerance".

Portugal - Hurricane (full size model) – “RV+J” is at Museu do Ar (Air Museum), Alverca (near Lisbon). 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 (Moscow) - Hurricane – at Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill (Park Pobedy on Poklonnaya Gora?) there is a very basic renovation of a Hurricane frame.

(Updated June 2023)

Russia (Moscow) - Hurricane IIb - AP740 shown as "BN233" - is at the Vadim Zadorozhny Museum of Technology, Krasnogorsky, near Moscow
Was also known as the "Krasnogorsky Museum of the Technics"
AP740 was rebuilt by Voenno-Patrioticheskoe Obshestvo “Vysota” (the Military-Patriotic Association “Height”) in Kolpino, St. Petersburg, Russia.

(Updated October 2015)
Russia (Murmansk) - Hurricane IIc - Z2461 is at the Museum of the Air Forces of the Northern Fleet, Safonovo Settlement, Murmansk.
See "Hawker Hurricane Survivors" by Gordon Riley - page 71.

Russia (Revda) - 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 (St. Petersburg) - Hurricane IIb - AP740
---- now moved ---- see the Vadim Zadorozhny Museum of Technology, Krasnogorsky, near Moscow
AP740 is being rebuilt by Voenno-Patrioticheskoe Obshestvo “Vysota” (the Military-Patriotic Association “Height”) in Kolpino, St. Petersburg, Russia for the Krasnogorsky Museum of the Technics near Moscow for static display .
' The workshop, as well as the “picturesque mess” around it, belongs to Voenno-Patrioticheskoe obshestvo “Vysota” (the Military-Patriotic Association “Height”) which was founded in 1994 in Saint-Petersburg by former Russian North Fleet NAVY pilots with the goal to commemorate the Heroes of WW2. They conduct searches, organize recoveries, and restore WW2 aircraft and armoured vehicles so that future generations can see how their forefathers were armed.
“The Hurricane work in progress is the fourth one in our restoration history. We do it for the Krasnogorsky Museum of the Technics near Moscow. It is for static display but we will provide it with a working engine.” says Victor Dudin, retired TU-22M BACKFIRE pilot, now a leader of the “Height”. “We have already restored three Hurricanes, one of them is in a Brooklyn museum… two others are in private collections located in the UK and USA.” ' - Sergei Stepanenko on the barnstormers.com web site.

(Updated October 2015)
Russia (St. Petersburg) - The remains of several Hurricane recoveries are reported still stored in the area.
See "Hawker Hurricane Survivors" by Gordon Riley - page 215.

Russia - Hurricane IIb – Z2769 - http://www.barnstormers.com had 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 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....

(Photograph - Copyright Acknowledged - Chaika12 - Some rights reserved - 2012)

Serbia (Former Yugoslavia) - Hurricane IV – LD975 - "O" (also 9539?) is at the Yugoslav Aeronautical Museum, Belgrade Airport, Serbia.

South Africa (Johannesburg) - Hurricane IIc – LD619 AX-E is at the South African National Museum of Military History, Saxonwold, Johannesburg, South Africa. 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.

(Updated January 2020)
USA (Arizona) - Hurricane II – "BG974" “DT-A” at the Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona.

Previously registered as "V6864" “DT-A” .
Thought to include RCAF5662 but not confirmed.
See "Hawker Hurricane Survivors" by Gordon Riley - page 196.
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.

2020 - refurbished in the markings of Hurricane Mk.II JG879 which Texan, Lance Cleo Wade flew in combat over North Africa with RAF 33 Squadron during April, 1942.

The completed airframe was finished in the markings of Squadron Leader Stanford Tuck of 257 Squadron "V6864" “DT-A”.
From 2006 loaned to the Pima Air and Space Museum by the Military Aircraft Restoration Corporation.
Previously owned by Bob Schneider's RRS Aviation of Hawkins, Texas and on loan to the Cavanaugh Flight Museum, Addison Airport near Dallas, Texas.

--- Now removed--- to Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar Ltd , Kent, England ----

USA (California) - Hurricane IIb AE977 'LE-D' (airworthy) - civil registration N33TF at PLANES OF FAME AIR MUSEUM, Chino, California.
At Tom Friedkin's Cinema Air Organisation at (Planes Of Fame) from late 2001.
Left for the UK from the Friedkin's Comanche Fighters base in Texas in mid 2012.

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.

(Updated October 2015)
USA (California) - Hurricane IIb – Z5227 (ex-Russia - stored restoration project) previously in Minnesota, USA.
See "Hawker Hurricane Survivors" by Gordon Riley - page 84.

(Updated October 2015)
USA (Colorado) - Hurricane I - P3311 is being restored to flying condition by a private collector in Denver.
See "Hawker Hurricane Survivors" by Gordon Riley - page 41.
Was previously 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 (Florida) - Hurricane XII - RCAF5400 The Fantasy of Flight Museum of Kermit Weeks in Polk City, Florida, has airframe in store awaiting restoration.
Previously at Weeks Air Museum, Florida until the move to Polk City.

USA (Ohio) - Hurricane XII – "Z3174" "XR-B" at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, 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.

Photograph - Copyright Acknowledged - www.platinumfighters.com - 2016

(Updated June 2021)
USA (North Dakota) - Hurricane Mark XII - N96RW - "BG974" "RS-W" (Previously N68RW / N97RW ?) A collection of Hurricane components combined to construct an airworthy Hurricane - at Dakota Territory Air Museum, Minot, North Dakota
Identified as RCAF5708.
See "Hawker Hurricane Survivors" by Gordon Riley - page 202.

Reverse history
2021 – to Dakota Territory Air Museum, Minot, North Dakota
---- previously at the Lone Star Flight Museum & Texas Aviation Hall of Fame, Galveston Island, Galveston, Texas.
2016 - "acquired by a British owner new to the historic aviation scene" ????
2016 - offered for sale by Platinum Fighter Sales - April 2016.
2008 - October - Stored awaiting repairs.
2008 - September - The storm "Hurricane IKE" caused serious damaged to the Lone Star Flight Museum.
2008 - Sat 26th April - N97RW was damaged in a slow speed ground collision with a Spitfire and at the Lone Star Flight Museum air show.
2006 - 12th May - First flight after restoration.

(Photograph - Copyright Acknowledged - Military Aviation Museum)

(Updated July 2015)
USA (Virginia) - Hurricane XIIb – RCAF5667 (N943HH) (airworthy) - at the Military Aviation Museum, Virginia Beach Airport & Museum, Virginia Beach, Virginia.

The aircraft was built by the Canadian Car and Foundry Company Ltd. in 1943 and served until 1946.

Showing "DZ-O" and "V6793" in 2008.

Previously registered as N2549.

Reverse history
In 2001 the Fighter Factory were flying the aircraft again.
Later that month (May 1994) RCAF5667 was damaged in a landing mishap at Yakima, Washington.
After restoration the plane flew again on 10^th May 1994.
RCAF 5667 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?)

USA (Virginia) - Hurricane IIa – Z2768 (restoration project) - at the Fighter Factory, Virginia Beach Airport & Museum, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Reverse history
The airframe was recovered in the 1990s.
The aircraft saw service in Russia and was shot down in February 1943.

USA (Virginia) - 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.

(Photograph - Copyright Acknowledged - Flying Heritage Collection )

(Updated June 2022)
USA (Washington) - Hurricane XIIa (Sea Hurricane) – RCAF5429 N54FH (airworthy)
- at the Flying Heritage Collection Paine Field, Everett, Washington, USA.

2022 - Following the death of Flying Heritage Collection founder, Paul Allen (Microsoft co-founder), the aircraft is expected to move to the collection of Steuart Waldon (of the Walmart family).

Displayed as "5429" "Z" in the colours of "The Bulldog Squadron" RCAF 135 Sqn. - a Home Defence unit based at Patricia Bay, British Columbia, Canada.

Previously BW881 - G-KAMM
First flight after rebuild was on the 15th March 2006 at Wattisham.
Recovered from a farm in Ontario, Canada – restored to airworthy condition by Hawker Restorations Ltd.of Moat Farm, Church Road, Milden, Suffolk.

USA (Washington) - Hurricane - AM274 - N274JW (restoration project) --- Now moved --- see "Belgium"
was previously with JNE Aircraft, LLC, Burlington, Washington, USA.

USA (Washington) - Hurricane II – Z2330 (restoration project) --- Now moved --- see "near Hamilton, Ontario, Canada" ----
was previously with JNE Aircraft, LLC, Burlington, Washington, USA.

USA (?) - Hurricane - RCAF5708 - N96RW - This Mk.XIIa. reported recovered from a swamp in Gander, Canada and now registered in the USA as N96RW.

Yugoslavia - Hurricane IV – LD975 - "O" (also 9539?) ---- see "Serbia".

the Sindlinger Hurricane 5/8ths scale flying replicas (details open to question!)

Sindlinger plans schedule

1000 - Fred Sindlinger – Washington, USA – flown by his son
1008 – George Matay – USA – sold plane and crashed by new owner
1015 – Harry Lasachuk – Canada – tigerboys C-GWPN WP-N
1018 – Fred Kramer – USA – under construction?
1024 – ? – South Africa – Disassembled?
1032 – Earl Shonler – Lincoln, UK – under construction / photos
1041 – Brian Thorpe – Florida, USA – complete 2002 N920BT
1048 – Don Glover – Alberta Aviation Museum HH-B
1049 – LeRoy Schmidt – USA – sold complete but un-covered
1058 – Ron Sturgill – Toledo, USA – crashed 2002, new engine, for sale
1068 - LeRoy Davidson – Fort Collins, USA
1069 - Arthur Winstanley – Perth, Australia - AF-W VH-AFW (C/N 26-10663) Bull Creek Collection
1087 - Thomas Reese – South Africa?
1090 – Ken Letssinger – Davis, CA, USA – sold to Domonic Cheater
1091 – Don Newton – Elk Grove, CA, USA – part built?
1096 – D.E.Comrie – Dunedin, New Zealand - ZK-VYX Owner (Bob Gibson)
1103 – Richard Kurzenberger – Michigan, USA – construction with Terry White

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.

Photograph - Copyright Acknowledged - Air-Britain )

(Updated May 2021)

Canada - Sindlinger Hurricane 5/8ths scale flying replica - C-GWPN "WP-N" named "Lil Harry Cane"
Construction Number - Sindlinger-1015

Located with Tiger Boys Aeroplane Works and Museum at Guelph Airpark, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

Built by Harry Lasachuk from Toronto in 1985.

Photograph - Copyright Acknowledged - Alberta Aviation Museum )

(Updated May 2021)

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.)

Photograph - Copyright Acknowledged - the seller

(Updated Oct 2022)

England - Sindlinger Hurricane 5/8ths scale flying replica – Part complete and second project sold in the UK in 2022.

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 was 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.

Photograph - Copyright Acknowledged - Experimental Aircraft Association of South Africa )

(Updated May 2021)

South Africa (Port Elizabeth?) - Sindlinger Hurricane 5/8ths scale flying replica - "ZS-UIP" "GN-O"

Previously reported in Port Elizabeth - currently disassembled.

Construction Number - Sindlinger-1024

Details from Homebuilt May 1978 page 15

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”.

Photograph - Copyright Acknowledged - Air-Britain )

(Updated May 2021)

USA - Sindlinger Hurricane 5/8ths scale flying replica – N33000 "CN-R"

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.

Flying Legend Hawker Hurricane 72% Replica from Italy

(Updated May 2022)

The Flying Legend Hawker Hurricane Replica produced by Flying Legend of Caltagirone, Italy and first showm in 2011.

The aircraft, a 72% scale replica, sold as a single seater as a kit or complete.

The photo shows the 2-seater tandem layout..

Also have a look HERE for my Hurricane Flickr photo albums.

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