Flew in 253 Squadron from RAF Kenley, P3717 was damaged by German fighters over Redhill on 30 August 1940. The Hurricane was rebuilt by Hawkers as a IIa for service with the Sovjet airforces.
Flying with 253 Squadron from RAF Kenley, P3717 was damaged by German fighters over Redhill on 30 August 1940. The Hurricane was rebuilt by Hawkers as a IIa (serial DR348) for service with the Sovjet airforces. P3717 is flown here by Stuart Goldspink.
In 1996 the remains of Z2389 were recovered from the site in the Murmansk region, where she had crash landed on 20 June, 1942. After arrival at Brooklands in 1997 the restoration to taxiable condition commenced.
Before being supplied to the Sovjet Union, Z2389 had served with 71 (Eagle) Squadron at RAF Martlesham Heath, coded ‘XR-T’. It joined 767 Regiment of the Sovjet Air Force on the Kola Peninsula in May 1942.
In the new hangar at Ta 'Qali, Hurricane IIA Z3055 which crashed in the sea in 1941 with the loss of her pilot Sgt Thomas Hackston. She was found by a diver 54 years later and is a magnificent restoration.