Hi
I think the top photo shows Hurricane Mark I – DF+SC 1941-42 Zerbst-Anhalt, info from LEMB board.

But could it be this old two blade hurricane mentioned in an old flypast thread

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=76905

cheers
Jerry

Jerry,

Certainly looks a strong candidate – both having no aerial and tip of spinner missing.

Mark12, you mentioned now having the copy. Did you manage to get the original print on ebay or is this one of the later digital copies being offered for 3.99 Euros? The original might reveal a little more detail. I assume you saw the other view, showing a Germanic 1 and 4 either side of the fuselage roundel, as this one does not show the over-painting you refer to.

US-P photo

[QUOTE=AdlerTag;1856143]Hard to tell from the low-res version I’ve linked to below, but in better copies of this photo the wings on US-P P2764 ……

Although captioned as P2764, only the 64 is visible. This photo could easily be of L1764 or N2664, both of which were on 56 Sqdn at about this time. As far as I know P2764 was never with 56 Sqdn.

Apologies for tardy response to your PM – have now done so through ‘visitor’s messages’.

Hi Owen,

For starters see Hawker Restorations website then perhaps contact them direct, especially with your link with the book – a good read.

http://www.hawker-restorations-ltd.co.uk/_images/_current/robt/nov10/nov2010robt.html

Regards
Geoff

This is the best I can do at the moment. Hope they show OK. They were taken in 1966 before the excavation and appear in a local history book about the area during the war – not quite the same as the Hendon Hurricane book, now long out of print.
A little off topic, but on the subject of that Hurricane, last year the BBMF conducted a 70th anniversary commemorative flypast over the crash site. It was videod and ended up on Youtube. For those interested, see

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JipqFSRiMk

Alternatively, type ‘Walton Flypast’ into youtube and go from there. The vehicle flying the flag is the ex RAF Scammell recovery vehicle that pulled the Hurricane from the mud in 1973 – now a working museum piece in its own right.

Rather than ‘over the years’, 308 Sqdn ATC conducted a specific excavation in 1973. The aircraft had been ‘salvaged’ in 1945 but large heavy items such as the engines, prop blades & u/c legs were left buried on site, along with an array of smaller fragments such as those in the pictures. A couple of the u/c legs went to Hendon, the engines were very badly corroded and, I believe, were eventually scrapped. Three of the prop blades were made into a memorial erected by the local church, where they still remain.