Interesting question – do you have more details of delivery dates, ferry pilots and where these Hurricanes were delivered from in the UK?

Hi,

I have the following information on the deliveries from Brookland through contract N° B655029/37:
L1918/20 april 1939
L1993/97 June 1939
L2040/44 June 1939
L2105/11 19 November 1939
Unfortunately no names of delivery pilots are known to me exept for the last delivery which was done by Belgian pilots including Claert, Cluytens, Lieutenant (what’s in a name) and Van Damme.

This last delivery was taken from a Hurricane contract with Finland which was cancelled. I suppose that the last 7 (not 5 as always written) Hurricanes were indeed not delivered due to the urgent need to equip the RAF and when the Finnish opportunity came trough the remainder of the contract was delivered.
It is also said that serial H19 was a mistake by the builders and that the machine was renumbered. Another possibility also seen with the delivery of the Belgian Fairey Battles is that the “last two” of the RAF s/n were used, giving thus H18, H19, H20 as the first three delivered.
A lot of questions remain.

Regards,

DBx (and yes Fouga it’s me….)
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