Something new...

Fortunate to catch Hurricane IIa P3351/marked as P3143/OO-MKT at Duxford today having arrived from from Wattisham on Monday.

The airframe has a remarkable history as a Battle of France veteran serving with 73 Sqn, later joining 32 Sqn and 71 (Eagle) Sqn.
After rework as a Mk.IIA, she went to Russia as DR393, being recovered from a crash site in 1991.
A long rebuild saw her flying in 2000 in New Zealand as ZK-TPL, before moving to France in 2013 as F-AZXR.
Initially intended to become a two-seater, she is now owned by a Czech Museum collection. Engineering will be centred in Belgium.
P3143 served with 310 Sqn at Duxford from July 1940, achieving 6 victories before being destroyed in October 1940. (Aircraft history provided by the very knowledgeable David Whitworth)

 

Today at Duxford...

Two seater Hurricane (Twocane or Toucane?) BE505 was flying, "Marinell" was sunbathing with TE462, the Comet 4 G-APDB was looking at a future outside after being 'evicted' following 19 comfortable years in Airspace and the Harrier GR3 XZ133 was back on terra firma for the time being after hovering for many years in Airspace...

How many warbirds can you fit in a hangar?...

 Time to start stacking them?...

What a difference a week makes...

 ...compared to the wet weather of last Wednesday, it was almost summer-like today. PT462 was active again and Hurricane R4118 was flying towards days end...