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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hurricane
    Latest Model:Hurricane XII
    Last Military Serial:5589 RCAF
    Construction Number:52024
    Last Civil Registration:G-HURR
    Compressed ID:Canadian Car and Foundry Hurricane...
    Latest Owner or Location:The Real Aeroplane Co, Breighton

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Hurricane XII by Canadian Car and Foundry at Fort William, ON, Canada.
    G-HURR was restored by Autokraft at Brooklands.Crashed at the Shoreham air show 2007-09-15.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 5589.

    To The Real Aeroplane Co, Breighton with new c/r G-HURR.

    September 1996


    Photographer: Fred Taylor
    Notes: Seen here at Farnborough, UK marked as BE417 in September 1996.

    By 2000

    Markings Applied: LK-A
    Black overall. In the colours of LK-A Hurricane I of 87 Sqn, RAF Colerne, February 1941.

    22 July 2000


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Cottesmore RIAT

    By 2003

    Markings Applied: LK-A, 52024
    Black overall.

    19 July 2003


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: On static display in the 100 years of flight enclave at RIAT Fairford.

    9 September 2007


    Photographer: David Blaker
    Notes: At Duxford Autumn Display. Marked BD707 AE-C. Destroyed at Shorham Air Show just a week after this photograph

    12 September 2017


    Photographer: Fred Taylor
    Notes: Seen here departing Duxford, UK on 12 September 2007, for the ill-fated trip to Shoreham where it was written off with the loss of pilot Brian Brown three days later.
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