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HURRICANE/Z5053

Hawker Hurricane

Serial #: Z5053
Construction #:
  41H/G521232
Civil Registration:
  G-BWHA
  Model(s):
  Hurricane Mk. I
  Hurricane Mk. IIb
Name: None
Status: Stored
Last info: 1996

History:
Delivered to Soviet AF as Z5053, January 1941.
- Shot down in combat, Archangel, Russia, August 1943.
- Recovered from crash site, Welikoe, Oneshakij.
Purchased by Swiss individual, planned restoration in Hungary.
Tim Roustis/Historic Flying Ltd, UK, July 1994-1995.
Historic Flying Ltd, Audley End, UK, August 23, 1995-1996.
- Registered as G-BWHA.
Richard A. Roberts, Billingshurst, 1996.
- Stored pending restoration to airworthy.

Source(s):
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
Photo Source(s):
None.

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