Canadian heritage plane on auction block Hawker Hurricane

[Woxof38]

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Features/Ta ... 76406.html

http://www.bonhams.com/press_release/11532/

[Colonel Sanders]

I just can't believe the prices on those WWII fighters.

[Moose47]

G'day

After going through my archives, I wrote up the following and fired it and copies of the aircraft record cards off to the people at the Auction House in England.

"Hurricane Mk. XII (not XIIA) s/n 5711 was built by Canadian Car & Foundry of Fort William, Ontario in late 1942. It was taken on strength with the Royal Canadian Air Force’s Eastern Air Command on the 8th of January. After being put into long term storage pending receipt of radiators, Hurricane s/n 5711 was issued to the Home War Establishment on the 18th of August, 1943 and taken on strength with No. 123 (Army Co-Operation Training) Squadron based at Debert, Nova Scotia The squadron provided training in close support and reconnaissance for Canadian the Canadian Army’s 4th and 7th Divisions.

Hurricanes were operated by No. 123 (ACT) Squadron from November 1942 to October 1943. The squadron fell under administrative control of No. 3 Training Command of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and to Air Force Headquarters in Ottawa on an operational level.

No. 123 (ACT) Squadron was selected in late 1943 for overseas duty. The squadron was re-designated as No. 439 ‘Westmount’ (Fighter Bomber) Squadron at Wellingore, Lincolnshire on the 31st of December, 1943. The squadron flew the Hawker Hurricane Mk. IV non-operationally from January 1944 to April 1944 and flew the Hawker Typhoon Mk. IB from January 1944 to August 1945. The squadron’s first operational sorties were flown on the 27th of March, 1944."

Cheers...Chris

[co-joe]

I just can't believe the prices on those WWII fighters.

Pretty crazy eh? Reminds me of the story an old flyer told me in YTH in 97ish, can't seem to remember his name but I think he was the ops manager with Skyward. He told me that back in the 50's he had a line on a spitfire ( I think) in a hangar in YYC and a spare Merlin and some other parts for $2000. He had the money coming in a week and the bank wouldn't lend him the money saying it wasn't worth that much. Heart breaker for him to know it would be worth over a million now...

[Ferris]

I just can't believe the prices on those WWII fighters.

Less expensive than an F-35!

[pelmet]

How would one even go about figuring in what shape it is in. You could end up buying a plane with loads of problems.

[SeptRepair]

Get a pre purchase done by someone who knows Hurricanes. Ask for all the details of the last restoration paying particular attention to the tube structure and making sure any repairs have been documented correctly. If it is an original center section then I would be digging a little deeper. Being only a Mark XII I suspect they would be lucky to get 2.0 mil CAD.

[Realitychex]

Wow. A Hurricane with 12 Browning 303 machine guns......

Sholto Gilbertson, with the London, England-based Bonhams auctioneers, which is selling off the Hurricane Mk XIIa 5711 -- fully equipped with 12 Browning .303 machine guns -- said little is known of how the now fully restored fighter spent the war.

[Moose47]

"Sholto Gilbertson, with the London, England-based Bonhams auctioneers, which is selling off the Hurricane Mk XIIa 5711 -- fully equipped with 12 Browning .303 machine guns -- said little is known of how the now fully restored fighter spent the war."

I just heard from Sholto this morning. I am sending him some supplemental gen on the aircraft to go along with that I have sent him already.

As I said earlier,it is a Mk. XII not a Mk. XIIA. The Canadian-built MK. XIIA's were were actually completed as Sea Hurricanes and assigned to the R.C.A.F. The serial numbers ranged from BW835 to BW884.

Cheers...Chris