Hawker Hurricane Survivors

With 2015 being the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain arguably the Hawker Hurricane’s “finest hour” it is appropriate to tell the story of the surviving Hurricanes from around the world. Building on research originally started thirty years ago, Gordon Riley has delved into the archives to amass new information and in the process managed to identify positively one Hurricane that had proved elusive for more than forty years. Today a number of Hurricanes are being privately restored globally. However, the oldest in existence, a veteran of both the British Expeditionary Force to France in 1939 and the Battle of Britain, is displayed in the Science Museum in London, and the youngest the very last Hurricane ever built is still flying with the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. =