The Hawker Hurricane Society

The Hanger 11 Hawker Hurricane was one of 1, 451 Hurricanes built by the Canadian Car & Foundry Company factory, Canada in 1942 as construction number CCF/R20023 and joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and served as a home based fighter for the duration of the war.

At the end of her military service she was refurbished to 'as new' condition and then sold off to the private sector, as were most surviving RCAF Hurricanes at that time.Many became much needed 'hardware stores' donating their parts to keep the tractors and machinery running on the many enormous farms of the Canadian prairie.

The aircraft remained substantially intact, to be re-discovered by Tony Ditheridge in Canada in the 1990's as a very complete airframe with most major components.

Returning to the UK, restoration work began in earnest in 2005 at Hawker Restorations  in Suffolk. The comprehensive restoration was completed in January 2009 and saw this rare Hurricane rolled out in her fighter-bomber configuration resplendent in the markings of BE505, a Manston based Mk IIB operated by 174 (Mauritius) Squadron in spring, 1942.

Her first flight took place from North Weald on 27 January 2009.

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