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Re: 'New Hurricane'
Posted by TonyD on Sat May 18, 2002 02:37:07 PM
In reply top 'New Hurricane' posted by Paul McMillan on Sat May 18, 2002 09:49:17 AM
Good news to see another Hurricane. Sounds like a data plate rebuild, you know the kind that Mick likes so much!!!
: Latest registration on the British Register is Hawker Hurr
: icane I G-HRLI construction Nos: 41H-136172 V7497 to Hawke
: r Restorations Ltd at Milden.
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: Now this 501 Sqn aircraft crashed during the Battle of Bri
: tain on Saturday 28th September 1940 when it was on Patrol
: and the pilot P/O Everett Bruce Rogers RAFVR (81373) bail
: ed out following combat with Me 109's over Deal Kent at 10
: .10 am. The aircraft crashed and burned out at Chartley, E
: ast Sutton. The aircraft at the time was declared a write
: off.
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: 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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