Alpine Fighters Hurri to be auctioned in Oz!!!

Apart from the sale of the NZ Hurricane any clue regarding the sale of the exTFC/HFC hurricane?

Any update as to whether its staying down under?

Apart from the sale of the NZ Hurricane any clue regarding the sale of the exTFC/HFC hurricane?

Hi all, Mr Black says yes it’s up for sale. At the right price though !!!

Steve

Why?

ANY historic aircraft is viable to be put up for sale, at any time. It just depends entirely on the owners’ whim at the time.

Just because a (fairly rare) Hurricane has been put up for sale, does not mean that it will sell immediately, or even that it will leave the country.

How long was ex-Historic Flying Spitfire XVIII SM845 on the market for? Six, seven years? OK, it’s left the country, but it’ll doubtless be back!

Likewise, even if the Hurri leaves the country, there’s others in the pipeline….

I seems an odd time to sell with the BofB 70th Anniversary this year and presumably more air show bookings on the cards :confused:

HAC News page: “We have decided to put up for sale our Hurricane (G-HURI), as a precursor to the arrival of our original Hawker Fury which is due to fly this Summer”

To be honest, I’m too busy salivating over the prospect of the Fury to be all that saddened by the sale of the Hurricane. Think of the formation possibilities! How about a seven-ship 1930’s formation: Fury/Gladiator/Gladiator/Hind/Demon/Nimrod I/Nimrod II?

Earlier posts have hit the nail on the head: we do have quite a few Hurricanes, and I for one am all up for increasing the variety of types to see in the air. That said, the HAC Hurricane is a particularly fine one, and it will be sad to see it go if it does get sold. The sight of a three-ship “vic” of Hurricanes at Legends was pretty special…

I seems an odd time to sell with the BofB 70th Anniversary this year and presumably more air show bookings on the cards :confused:

The HAC websites news page has some useful updates on it…see HERE.

‘it is expected however that we will continue operating it for the whole of this season and we are continuing to take bookings for this summer as usual’.

Cheers, Huw

Volunteering to do work [ala AirNZ] does not entitle one to a share of ownership or return if an item is subsequently sold . The only way that it could would be for a formal agreement to be signed, sealed and deliverd. The old I said, she said, we all said, has little or no standing at law.

AirNZ should be happy that the public saw it flying. Afterall they lost hundreds of millions of tax payer and shareholder funds through incompetance,:mad:

Which brings to mind a recent Canadian Spitfire deal….. 😉

HAC News page: “We have decided to put up for sale our Hurricane (G-HURI), as a precursor to the arrival of our original Hawker Fury which is due to fly this Summer”

To be honest, I’m too busy salivating over the prospect of the Fury to be all that saddened by the sale of the Hurricane. Think of the formation possibilities! How about a seven-ship 1930’s formation: Fury/Gladiator/Gladiator/Hind/Demon/Nimrod I/Nimrod II?

Earlier posts have hit the nail on the head: we do have quite a few Hurricanes, and I for one am all up for increasing the variety of types to see in the air. That said, the HAC Hurricane is a particularly fine one, and it will be sad to see it go if it does get sold. The sight of a three-ship “vic” of Hurricanes at Legends was pretty special…

Hi all, it’s a particularly fine Hurricane now that HAC have spent a fortune on her.

Steve

It was parked to the left of the Navy Havard .

Quite clearly i wasn’t.

Of all the pictures i’ve seen i haven’t seen any of the Hurri, hence the reason i asked.

Looked like one hell of a show mind, especially the mind blowing backdrop.

i see that the alpine fighters Hurri was absent from warbirds over Wanaka over the easter weekend. Has it left the country?

Clearly you were not there to see that it was it fact at Wanaka, where it is based , and on display , though it did not leave the ground .

P3351 was indeed on the flightline at Wanaka last weekend, however it wasn’t included in the flying display. A thread at Wings Over New Zealand (see below for link) has a forum member who talked to Stu Goldspink, he explained that this was due to insurance costs.

http://rnzaf.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=airshow&action=display&thread=10986&page=6

Must not have been a mirage as I saw it there too.Not flying though 🙁

i see that the alpine fighters Hurri was absent from warbirds over Wanaka over the easter weekend. Has it left the country?

You should have looked a bit harder….

i see that the alpine fighters Hurri was absent from warbirds over Wanaka over the easter weekend. Has it left the country?

Yeah – but it would be on the east coast! Be OK if it flew out west, occasionally

G’day All

We have more New Zealanders in Australia than actually live in NZ (well seems like it) so if the Hurricane came to Australia, then a whole load of “other” NZ’ers could see it.

So…… what’s the problem?

cheers

Volunteering to do work [ala AirNZ] does not entitle one to a share of ownership or return if an item is subsequently sold . The only way that it could would be for a formal agreement to be signed, sealed and deliverd. The old I said, she said, we all said, has little or no standing at law.

AirNZ should be happy that the public saw it flying. Afterall they lost hundreds of millions of tax payer and shareholder funds through incompetance,:mad:

Volunteering to do work [ala AirNZ] does not entitle one to a share of ownership or return if an item is subsequently sold . The only way it would if that was the signed, sealed and delivered agreement…