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Hurricane/RCAF5589

Serial #: RCAF5589
Construction #: None
Civil Registration:
  G-HURR
Model(s):
  Mk. IIb
  Mk. XII
Name: None
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2002
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   History:
Delivered to RCAF as 5589.
- BOC: Nov. 6, 1942.
- SOC: Oct. 1, 1946.
- Allocated to unknown Coastal Defense Squadron.
- Transferred to unknown training unit.
Harry Whereatt, Assiniboia, Saskatchewan, Canada, 1970.
- Recovered from farm, Sakatoon, Saskatchewan.
Brian Angliss/Autokraft Ltd, Brooklands, 1980-1992.
- Registered a G-HURR, July 30, 1990.
- Restored to airworthy.
- First flight 1995.
- Flew as BE417/AE-K in 402 Squadron scheme.
Real Aeroplane Company, Breighton, North Yorkshire, 1997-2002.
- Damaged during landing when aircraft tipped on nose (repaired), July 1998.
- Flown as BE417/LK-A in 87 Squadron "Night Fighter" scheme.

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):
Tony Chambers Photography.
Mark McEwan.
Steve Fletcher.
Nigel Roling/Pentavia Digital Imaging.