Hawker Hurricane X Aircraft Data

The Canadian Car & Foundry Company Ltd of Montreal began production at their Fort William plant (now Thunder Bay, Ontario) of the Hurricane Mk.I on receipt of an Air Ministry order on 4 January 1939. In total the company produced 140 Mk.I aircraft. These machines were fitted with Rolls Royce-built Merlin II engines and later with the Merlin III.

In October 1939 the first Gloster-built Hurricane I took to the air, and in early 1940, the first Canadian-built Hurricane (a Mk.1 with Rolls Royce Merlin III) made her first flight. The first Hurricanes from Canada started to arrive in the United Kingdom in June 1940.

As the Packard-built Merlin 28 became available the Mk.1 aircraft fitted with the American engine was re-designated Mk.X. In total CC&F built 440 machines of this mark. The aircraft were serialled AE958-977 (20 aircraft); AF945-AG344 (300 aircraft); AG665-684 (20 aircraft) and finally AM270-369 (100 aircraft). This last batch of aircraft was rebuilt in the UK to Mk.IIB and IIC-standard.

Depending on the source, the total number of Hurricanes of all Canadian marks produced by CC&F varies from 1,204 (The Hawker Hurricane, F.K. Mason, Bourne, 1987) to 1,223 aircraft (British Military Aircraft Serials 1912-1966, B. Robertson, 1966 and British Military Aircraft Serials 1878-1987, B. Robertson, Earl Shilton, 1987). Other sources on the internet quote a numer as high as 1,451 aircraft.