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Hurricane/RCAF 5377

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Serial #: RCAF 5377
Construction #:
  42012
Civilian Registration:
  CF-SMI
  G-AWLW,
  C-GCWH
Model(s):
  Mk. IIb
  Mk. XII
Name: None
Status: Destroyed
Last info: 1993
   History:
Delivered to Royal Canadian AF as 5377.
- BOC: June 16, 1942.
- SOC: July 13, 1946.
Jim Roy, Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, 1946-1964.
- Derelict on farm.
Robert E. Diemert, Carman, Manitoba, 1964-1968.
- Registered as CF-SMI, 1966.
- Rebuilt and flown as RCAF 5585.
- Airfreighted to London in RCAF C-130, June 1, 1967.
- Flew in movie, "Battle Of Britain", 1968.
N.A.W. "Tony" Samuelson/Samuelson Film Services Ltd, Elstree, July 10, 1968-1969.
- Registered as G-AWLW.
Sir W.J.D. Roberts, Shoreham, Dec. 1969-1972.
Sir William Roberts/Strathallan Collection, Auchterader, Scotland, Mar. 1972-1984.
- Flew as P3308/UP-A.
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Hamilton, Ontario, May 1984-1993.
- Delivered to Hamilton by RCAF C-130.
- Registered as C-GCWH.
- First flight June 4, 1984.
- Flew as P3069/YO-A.
- Destroyed in hanger fire, Feb. 15, 1993.
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):
Jim Buckel.
Diemert via Norman Malayney.