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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hurricane
    Latest Model:Hurricane XIIA
    Last Military Serial:1374 RCAF
    Construction Number:CCF/R20023
    Last Civil Registration:G-HHII
    Compressed ID:Canadian Car and Foundry Hurricane...
    Latest Owner or Location:Peter Alexander Teichman, Trading As, London

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    Dates

    Event

    1942

    Constructed as a Hurricane I by Canadian Car and Foundry.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n AG287.
    Not delivered. Diverted to the RCAF.

    11 February 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 1374.
    Delivered to stored reserve.

    30 April 1942

    Issued on this date. Unit unknown.

    1 July 1942

    Category C Crash.
    Crashed on the runway at RCAF Station Sydney, NS at 13:35.

    Transferred to Canadian Car and Foundry.

    From 2 September 1943 to 2 September 1943

    Converted to a Hurricane XIIA by Canadian Car and Foundry at Fort William, ON, Canada.

    Transferred to No. 1 (F) OTU, Bagotville, QC.

    Category A Crash.

    22 April 1944

    Transferred to No. 9 Repair Depot.

    6 September 1944

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Canadian Air Force.

    From Circa 1970 to Circa 1979

    To Jack Arnold.

    To Hawker Restorations Ltd/Tony Ditheridge.

    2005

    Restoration started.

    2007

    To Hangar 11 Collection, North Weald Airport, Harlow, Essex, England.
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    From 2007 to January 2009

    Restoration completed.
    Markings Applied: XP L, BE505
    Completed in fighter/bomber configuration. Finished in the markings of a Manston based Mk IIB operated by 174 (Mauritius) Squadron in the spring of 1942.

    5 April 2007

    To Peter Alexander Teichman, Trading As, London with new c/r G-HHII.

    27 January 2009

    First post-restoration Flight.
    Flown at North Weald.

    11 June 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2011 photo at a Fly-In at Hucknall Airfield

    6 September 2013


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At 2013 Oldtimer-Fliegertreffen Hahnweide, one of Europes largest historic aircraft air shows.

    20 December 2015

    Platinum Fighter Sales announced this airframe was for sale.

    6 October 2022


    Photographer: Fred Taylor
    Notes: Now modified as a two-seat aircraft, BE505 is seen here at Duxford, UK (EGSU) on 6 October 2022.
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    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Platinum Fighter Sales
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
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