Hawker Hurricane IV ‘P3395 / JX-B’ (really KX829)

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Hawker Hurricane IV ‘P3395 / JX-B’ (really KX829)
Hawker Hurricane IV ‘P3395 / JX-B’ (really KX829)

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Built in 1943 for the Royal Air Force with the serial KX829 and served with 137, 268 and 631 squadrons. In March 1946 she became a ground instructional airframe at Loughborough Technical College and she remained there until 1961 when she joined the Birmingham Museum of Science & Industry. She was displayed there in 6 squadron markings as ‘JV-I’ with her correct serial KX829. In 1990 she was ‘borrowed’ by the RAF and put on display in Horse Guards Parade as part of the commemorations for the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain. For this event, she was repainted to represent ‘P3395 / JX-B’, a Hurricane I of 1(F) Squadron during the Battle, which was based first at Tangmere and then Wittering. She soon returned to Birmingham but the Science museum closed in 1997 and the Hurricane was then restored at St Athan, retaining her false Battle of Britain colours, before going back on display in Birmingham during 2000.
thinktank, Birmingham science museum,
Millennium Point, Birmingham, UK
24th September 2021

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