Hurricane Sea -> Mk XIIA serial BW853

Photograph used with kind permission from Paradie, Kaehler Archive.
More details are available from The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum.

HISTORY

First date: 17 December 1941 – Taken on strength by No. 118 (F) Squadron at Dartmouth

Stored at Dartmouth, as reserve aircraft for the Merchant Ship Fighter Unit of the RAF. Served with No. 126 (F) Squadron at RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in 1942. Coded “BV*L”. With N. 127 (F) Squadron when it was in a Category B crash at Dartmouth on 24 July 1942. To Canada Car & Foundry at Amhearst for repairs, 6 August 1942. To CC&F at Fort William on 1 February 1943, originally scheduled for conversion to Hurricane Mk. IIB, but returned to Eastern Air Command as Mk. XXIA on 5 July 1943. To No. 1 (F) Operational Training Unit at RCAF Station Bagotville, PQ. Category B crash on 11 August 1944 at Bagotville, later reclassified as Category A. Remains purchased by A.J. Ditherridge of the UK in 1988. To ADJ Engineering at Milden, Suffolk, UK for restoration 6 October 1989. First flight 1994. To UK civil register post war as G-BRKE, cancelled 22 December 1995. Pieces used to restore BW881.

Last date: October 1944 – Struck off, reduced to spares and produce

BW854                  Hawker                 Canada Car and Foundry, Fort             Sea Hurricane