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'New Hurricane'
Posted by Paul McMillan on Sat May 18, 2002 09:49:17 AM
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Latest registration on the British Register is Hawker Hurricane I G-HRLI construction Nos: 41H-136172 V7497 to Hawker Restorations Ltd at Milden.
Now this 501 Sqn aircraft crashed during the Battle of Britain on Saturday 28th September 1940 when it was on Patrol and the pilot P/O Everett Bruce Rogers RAFVR (81373) bailed out following combat with Me 109's over Deal Kent at 10.10 am. The aircraft crashed and burned out at Chartley, East Sutton. The aircraft at the time was declared a write off.
P/O Rogers later joined Bomber Commmand, won the DFC as an acting Sqn Ldr and survived the war. He died in 1960.
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- Re: 'New Hurricane' - TonyD Sat May 18, 2002 02:37:07 PM