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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hurricane
    Latest Model:Hurricane IV
    Last Military Serial:KX829 RAF
    Compressed ID:Hawker Hurricane IV sn KX829 RAF
    Latest Owner or Location:Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum, Birmingham, West Midlands, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Hurricane IV.

    23 August 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n KX829.

    23 August 1943

    Transferred to No. 22 Maintenance Unit, Silloth, Cumberland.

    21 January 1944

    Transferred to 137 Squadron, RAF Colerne, Germany.

    1 August 1945

    Transferred to 631 Squadron, RAF Llanbedr, Wales.

    3 March 1946

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Air Force.

    3 March 1946

    Assigned to No. 22 Maintenance Unit, RAF Silloth, Cumbria for storage.

    To Loughborough College.

    To Loughborough College of Advanced Technology.

    1961

    To Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum, Birmingham, West Midlands, England.
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    17 November 2013


    Photographer: Jon Wickenden
    Notes: Hurricane II KX829, painted as P3395, on display in the Thinktank Museum, Birmingham
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