Hawker Hurricane

[Wurger]

 

[Geoffrey Sinclair]

Hurricane, RCAF 310 to 329 were built by Hawker and shipped to Canada.

From digitised microfilm of hand written originals, the RAF Serial Registers,
AF993, Mark I On charge 3 Sep (Nov?) 41, to India 11-Apr-42, move cancelled, Sudan 15 Jan 1943, RATG 28 Aug (May?) 1944, SOC 22-Oct-45

No use of Merlin 27 in mark II Hurricanes, the were the planned engine for the mark V, and when it was cancelled the engines already built were converted to Merlin 25 for Mosquitoes.

Not sure about the description of Hurricane production blocks, versus serial number blocks

Contract	Requisition	Order	notes
527112/36	26/36	600​	Includes 60 for other governments. Completed 8 Nov 1939. L1547 to L2146, 20 moved to contract 966177/38 Requisition 215/38 for Canada
962371/38	195/38	292​	Brooklands, completed 20 Jul 1940, P3265 to P3984 (500 a/c), P8809 to P8818 (10 a/c), R2180 to R2689 (10 a/c), W6667 to W6670 (4 a/c)
962371/38	195/38	232​	Langley, completed 17 Jul 1940 (serials in Brooklands line), another 500 on this contract from Gloster
751458/38	56/38	300​	Includes 12 for other governments. Completed 15 Feb 1940, N2381 to N2729 (300 a/c)

Remainder of Hawker built Hurricanes, excluding mark V and Sea mark IIC under contract B62305/39

Contract	Requisition	Order	notes
B62305/39	7/E1/39	2100​	V7200 to V7862 (496 a/c), Z2308 to Z4018 (1,000 a/c), AS987 to AS990 (4 a/c), BD696 to BE716 (600 a/c)
B62305/39	11/E1/40	1638​	BM898 to BP772 (1,250 a/c), HL544 to HM157 (388 a/c)
B62305/39	13/E1/41	1000​	HV275 to HW881 (1,000 a/c)
B62305/39	13/E1/41	1500​	KW696 to LA144 (1,500 a/c)
B62305/39	13/E1/41	1961​	LB542 to LF774 (1,961 a/c), no requisition number listed from LD serials onwards
B62305/39	39​	MW335 to MW373 (39 a/c)
B62305/39	150​	PG425 to PG610 (150 a/c)
B62305/39	112​	PZ730 to PZ865 (112 a/c)

The LB serials are part of the 4th contract, third requisition. Or the 11th major serial number allocation.

Original photograph for message 294

 

[Frog]

From an Interallied Information Office publication :

 

[Snautzer01]

HURRICANE MK. V. MERLIN NOV 1943

 

[Wurger]

 

[Frog]

From an Interallied Information Office publication :

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[Fatboy Coxy]

From an Interallied Information Office publication :


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Could this be Malta?, and looking at the caps on the ground crew, is it a FAA Hurricane?

 

[Wurger]

Yep .. believing the captions it's the Fleet Air Arm Hurricane BC755 at Malta.

the pic source: Hawker Hurricane

 

[Frog]

Could this be Malta?, and looking at the caps on the ground crew, is it a FAA Hurricane?

A Hurribomber, according to the caption.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[Snautzer01]

V6741 Hurricane 1C Merlin 3 1943

1. LARGE ORIGINAL 1943 BRITISH AIR MINISTRY RAF PHOTO SEA HURRICANE 1C 21x15cm | eBay
2. LARGE ORIGINAL 1943 BRITISH AIR MINISTRY RAF PHOTO SEA HURRICANE 1C 21x15cm #2 | eBay

 

[Wurger]

 

[nuuumannn]

Yep .. believing the captions it's the Fleet Air Arm Hurricane BC755 at Malta.

BG755, Gloster built example. In case anyone's wondering, it's not strictly speaking a "Sea Hurricane"; the FAA received ex-RAF Hurricanes to equip what was known as the Royal Navy Fighter Squadron, which was a wing of 269 Sqn RAF, which was a part of the Desert Air Force, the Hurricanes coming from different squadrons to be operated by FAA crews.

 

[Snautzer01]

No. 303 Squadron RAF, also known as the 303rd "Tadeusz Kościuszko Warsaw" wing commander Kellet Wing Commander Ronald Gustave Kellett

Very much the BoB movie 'Repeat please'

RF-C RF-J RF-D

 

[Wurger]

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[Snautzer01]

Flugplatz IRAKLION Kreta 1941 Hurricane 7425

 

[fubar57]

Single top colour?

 

[buffnut453]

Single top colour?

Nope. Standard Dark Earth and Dark Green.