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Wojtek, in your Post #5, I've got a larger photo of LK-R I was going to post but I couldn't see any cannon barrels to verify that it was a Mk.IIc.
Geo
Much obliged gentlemen, very much appreciated!
This is interesting Wojtek, I can't find this Hurricane in my Hurricane bible, clearly, as everybody can see, it's a Hurricane and it says Z4204, right....still in the book, you'll find Z4203 and Z4205, but no Z4204!?
Misprint in the book perhaps? Anyhoo, the other two (Z4203 and Z4205) were part of a Gloster (by the looks of things) built batch of 400 aircraft delivered between December 1940 and March 1941, a Mk. I...strange it is anyway..
One on the list that I've found (for the kit) is BN185, coded QO-A, a N. F. Mk. IIC from No. 3 Squadron, based at Hunsdon for night intruder operations 03/42 and reported as missing 13/01/43.
Good stuff chaps. Just a quick note - the Mk1s in overall black were mainly home-defence night fighters, the scheme later changed to DG/OG uppers, black underside, although by that time the Beaufighter and Mosquito had more or less replaced them in the role.
Those MkIIC's with under wing tanks operated in the Night Intruder role, again being mainly replaced by Mossie units.
Squadron code is TM-Hurricane L1913 (don't know the code) of No. 504 Squadron, was shot down by own A.A. near Nuneaton in 29/09/40 during a night sortie....pilot bailed out.
She was a Mk. I and part of the first batch of 600 aircraft from Hawker Aircraft Limited...