Buy a Hawker Hurricane and therewith a magnificent piece of history: a 1942 Hawker (CC&F) Hurricane IIB, c/n R20023, G-HHII for a price of £1,995,000. No need to worry to be late for work ever again with a powerful Packard built Merlin 29 engine. The Hawker Hurricane is a single-engine single-seat fighter and fighter bomber aircraft produced by the British manufacturer Hawker Aircraft Ltd., later Hawker-Siddeley Aircraft Ltd.. The Hawker Sea Hurricane is a carrier-based fighter variant. The Hawker Hurricane was also built under license in Canada by the Canada Car and Foundry Co Ltd.

History of the plane:

The history of this warbird is one which begins at the Canadian Car & Foundry Company factory in 1942 as construction number CCF/R20023. The aircraft was originally ordered as a Mk.1 for the RAF and allocated the military serial number AG287. The production batch was subsequently diverted to RCAF use and a new Canadian serial, 1374 was allocated. Delivered on 11 February 1942, she served with the RCAF until being returned to the factory in 1943 to be up-graded to Mk.XII standard - this included the installation of the more powerful Packard built Merlin 29 engine. Returning to RCAF use she was issued to No.1 (F) OTU (Bagotville, Quebec) where she remained until struck off charge on 6 September 1944.

Following the end of hostilities the airframe was sold off to the private sector and R20023 remained substantially whole and was acquired by collector Jack Arnold in the 1970's. After passing through the hands of other collectors she was purchased by Tony Ditheridge of Hawker Restorations Ltd. Restoration work began in earnest in 2005 at HRL, With the project making steady progress until it was acquired by Hangar 11 Collection in 2007 and re-registered as G-HHII. The comprehensive restoration was completed in January 2009 and saw this rare Hurricane rolled out in fighter-bomber configuration resplendent in the markings of BE505, a Manston based Mk IIB operated by 174 (Mauritius) Squadron in spring, 1942. Her first post-restoration flight took place from North Weald on January 27, 2009.

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All Photos Credit Paul Stam via www.jetphotos.net