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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hurricane
    Latest Model:Hurricane IIA
    Last Military Serial:DR393 RAF
    Construction Number:P3351
    Last Civil Registration:F-AZXR
    Compressed ID:Hawker Hurricane IIA sn DR393 RAF c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Mandelieu Airport, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes

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    Dates

    Event

    1940

    Constructed as a Hurricane I.
    Built by the Hawker factory at Brooklands, Surrey, England

    1940

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n P3351.

    May 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Volunteer Society for Cooperation with the Army, Aviation, and Fleet with s/n DR393.

    1943

    Crashed.
    Near Murmansk, Russia.

    To Warbirds and Wheels, Wanaka Airport, Wanaka, Otago, South Island.
    View the Location Dossier

    Converted to a Hurricane IIA.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n DR393 and operated with these markings: TP-K.

    1992

    To unknown owner.
    Acquired the aircraft hulk.

    1993

    To Alpine Fighter Collection (AFC), Wanaka.
    For restoration.

    3 August 1999

    Certificate of airworthiness for ZK-TPL (Hurricane Mk IIA, P3351) issued.

    3 August 1999

    To Alpine Fighter Collection, Wanaka, with new c/r ZK-TPL.

    23 May 2013

    To Roozen Jan Friso, Monaco, Cote D Azur with new c/r F-AZXR (Hawker Hurricane Mk Ii A, P3351).
    Based at Cannes Mandelieu.

    8 June 2013


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At St.Yan / Charolais Bourgogne Sud Airport in Burgundy, France

    12 July 2014


    Photographer: Gordon Riley
    Notes: DR393 has been restored in the markings it wore as a Mk I in 1940 before being converted into a Mk II

    30 October 2017


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: P3351 - K at Warbirds and Wheels, Wanaka, South Island, New Zealand

    16 July 2018


    Photographer: Fred Taylor
    Notes: F-AZXR photographed at Duxford, UK on 16 July 2018.

    Recovered.
    Recovered from crash site in Russia.

    To Mandelieu Airport, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes.
    View the Location Dossier

    7 September 2019


    Photographer: Eric Bannwarth
    Notes: at Melun Villaroche.
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     Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand
    DGCA Civil Aircraft Register (France)
    Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Warbird Registry by Scott Rose
    Individual Contributors
     Keith Bollands
    Terry Fletcher
    Reinhard Jost
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