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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hurricane
    Latest Model:Hurricane XII
    Last Military Serial:5487 RCAF
    Last Civil Registration:G-CBOE
    Compressed ID:Canadian Car and Foundry Hurricane...
    Latest Owner or Location:Karl-Friedemann Grimminger, Munich, Germany

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Hurricane XII by Canadian Car and Foundry at Fort William, ON, Canada.

    Circa June 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 5487.

    Circa June 1941

    Transferred to 147SQN, Gander, Labradour, Canada.

    22 November 1942

    Crashed.
    At 22:30hrs crashed near Indian Bay Pond, Newfoundland while pilot Sgt A R Taylor was practising night time aerobatics.

    Circa November 1942

    Damaged aircraft put into storage.

    March 1943

    Written off.

    Circa 1995

    To Hawker Restorations, Milden, Suffolk, UK.

    From 24 May 2002 to 24 February 2005

    To Classic Aero Engineering Ltd, Thruxton, Hampshire, UK with new c/r G-CBOE.

    From 24 February 2005 to 3 January 2013

    To Peter John Tuplin keeping c/r G-CBOE.

    From 3 January 2013 to 30 April 2013

    To Phoenix Aero Services Ltd keeping c/r G-CBOE.

    30 April 2013

    To Phillip John Lawton, Espoo, Finland keeping c/r G-CBOE.

    16 July 2014

    First post-restoration Flight.
    From Thruxton Airfield, Hampshire, UK.

    16 July 2014

    Markings Applied: AG244
    In silver overall, Southern Rhodesian Air Force scheme (Red band around aft fuselage.

    After 16 July 2014

    Markings Applied: HC-465
    Temporary Finnish Air Force WWII colour scheme for appearance at Tour de Sky Airshow, Oulu International Airport, northern Finland.

    12 October 2014


    Photographer: Gordon Riley
    Notes: Thruxton Aerodrome

    4 December 2014

    To Karl-Friedemann Grimminger, Munich, Germany.

    4 December 2014

    To Karl-Friedemann Grimminger, Munich, Germany keeping c/r G-CBOE.

    September 2016


    Photographer: Hugh Dodson
    Notes: 1942 RAF Hawker Hurricane IIb AG244/G-CBOE. Hahnweide Oldtimer Meeting 2016.

    18 August 2018


    Photographer: Kees van Aggelen
    Notes: Dittingen airfield (Switzerland)Hurricane G-CBOE as AG244
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    Print Sources
     Aeroplane Monthly by Kelsey Publishing Group
    Internet Sources
     Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Nichols
    Gordon Riley
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