Hurricanes

Two Hurricane Mk. IVs, KZ191 and KZ321, were recovered from a scrapyard in Israel during the late 1970s or early 1980s. There’s brief mention of this in the AE 6 sqdn feature.

TT, I for one would be very surprised if the Israeli AF operated any Hurricanes. Also, I’ve never seen any reference to Hurricanes in Ecuador. CW has it that they received P-47D Thunderbolts post-war, which were replaced by Meteor FR.9s. The only Latin-American Hurricane connection that I’m aware of, is that at least one Hurricane was sold to Argentina around 1946/47ish.

Regards,

Jan

I saw those Hurricanes in the Israeli scrapyard in 1974, or rather I saw one of them; I believe the second was right next to it but obscured from our view.
What I saw was a bare fuselage,with the Merlin engine still attached.My chum and I didn’t gain access to the yard, the owner was just locking up and didn’t look very friendly. Now I wish we’d asked him…

The yard was in Jaffa (Jafo?) by the way, in the southern suburbs of Tel Aviv. We stumbled across it whilst getting lost trying to find the old harbour at Jaffa.

I’ve read somewhere that the identities of these wrecks were a bit uncertain; can anyone confirm or deny this? And where is the second airframe, the one that remains unrestored? I’d love to see it again after all these years.