History of Hurricane being restored in the US

Thanks Thunderbird. 🙂

If the aircraft is the one flown by Flt Lt Lees then the details are as follows:-

Flying with 56 Sqn from Manston on 27th May 1940, Hurricane P3311 shot down by Bf109 probably flown by Fw Luders of 6/JG26 after attackinh He111 of KG54. The aircraft ditched in the sea of Ostend. Flt Lt R.H.A, Lee rescued. At this time 56 Sqn were normally based at North Weald but were operating from Manston to cover Dunkirk

Crew-One

Construction-Tubular metal cross-braced fueslage with fabric covering. All metal wing.

Engine-One 1,030hp Rolls Royce Merlin liquid cooled V12

Armament-Eight .303 Browning wing mounted machine guns with 334 rounds per gun Two 7.9mm MG17 fuselage mounted machine guns with 500 rounds per gun

Two 7.9mm MG17 fuselage mounted machine guns with 500 rounds per gun..what??:confused:

http://www.warbirdrecovery.com/wb_recovered.php#

scroll down a bit.

That’s the man and registration. I’m curious to the history of his specific Hurricane. How was is lost, etc. Again, just curious.

http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/nnumsql.asp?NNumbertxt=859JP ??

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Jim Pennington. He already registered a registration number that ended in JP.

http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/acftinqSQL.asp?striptxt=Hurricane&mfrtxt=&modeltxt=Hurricane&cmndfind.x=10&cmndfind.y=7

Jim Pennington. He already registered a registration number that ended in JP.

What was his name, might help tracking it down.