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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hurricane
    Latest Model:Hurricane I
    Last Military Serial:R4118 RAF
    Construction Number:G592301
    Last Civil Registration:G-HUPW
    Compressed ID:Gloster Aircraft Co. Ltd. Hurricane...
    Latest Owner or Location:James Brown, Hids Brake, Oxford

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Hurricane I by Gloster Aircraft Co. Ltd. at Brockworth, Gloucester.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n R4118.

    17 August 1940

    Transferred to 605SQN, RAF Drem.
    Credited with 5 kills during the Battle of Britain.

    17 August 1940

    Markings Applied: UP-W

    22 August 1940

    Damaged.
    Battle damage.

    From September 1940 to January 1941

    Repaired.

    18 January 1941

    Transferred to 111 SQN.

    Circa 1942

    Transferred to 56 OTU.

    Circa 1943

    Transferred to 59 OTU.

    December 1943

    Transported by ship.
    Dismantled, crated and sent to India.

    1947

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Air Force.
    Not re-assembled, Bombay India.

    Circa June 2001

    Transported by ship.
    Returned to UK.

    21 August 2001

    To Minmere Farm Partnership, North Moreton, Didcot with new c/r G-HUPW.

    21 August 2001

    To Peter John Vacher Trading As and Polly Mary Anne Vacher Trading As, Minmere Farm Partnership, Melhuish Farm, North Moreton, Didcot keeping c/r G-HUPW.

    23 December 2004

    First post-restoration Flight.

    15 July 2006


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At RIAT Fairford.

    By May 2013

    Markings Applied: UP-W
    Markings applied are as aircraft was originally painted when serving with 605Sqn during the Battle of Britain in 1940.

    5 May 2013


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: At Abingdon Air Show 2013

    5 May 2013


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: At Abingdon Air Show 2013

    5 May 2013


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: At Abingdon Air Show 2013

    5 May 2013


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: At Abingdon Air Show 2013

    5 May 2013


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: At Abingdon Air Show 2013

    5 May 2013


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: At Abingdon Air Show 2013

    1 October 2015

    Announced by Platinum Fighter Sales sold to a new owner in the U.K.

    23 October 2015

    To James Brown, Hids Brake, Oxford keeping c/r G-HUPW.

    19 June 2021


    Photographer: Hugh Dodson
    Notes: Air-Britain Fly-in, Turweston, Northamptonshire
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    Platinum Fighter Sales
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    Robert Nichols
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