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Hurricane/LF686



Serial #: LF686
Construction #: -
Civil Registration:
  None
Model: Mk. IIc
Name: None
Status: Displayed
Last info: 2004
  Built at Hawker's Langley Factory, Early 1944.
Delivered to RAF as LF686, March 14, 1944.
- Sent to 5 MU at RAF Kemble for installation of operational equipment.
- Assigned to No. 41 Operational Training Unit at RAF Hawden, Apr. 15, 1944.
- Transferred to RAF Maintenance Command, Chilbolton, June 27, 1945.
-- Designated maintenance airframe.
-- Assigned serial number 5207M.
- Transferred RAF Bridgenorth, July 1948.
-- Assigned to No. 7 school for recruit training.
- Transferred to RAF Hullavington, 1963.
RAF Museum, RAF Colerne, 1963-1970.
- Overhauled and placed in storage.
NASM, Silver Hill, MD, 1974-2004.
- Restored, 1989-2000.
- Stored.
- Moved to Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, 2003.






Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
Photo Source(s):
NASM