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Newsletter 23
Spring 2009
Updated on 17Feb2009
Published by the Hawker Association
for the Members.
Contents © Hawker Association

Contents
Editorial
Aces, Erks, Backroom Boys
Book Reviews
Christmas Lunch
Correction
Demonstration Flying
Harrier News
Harrier Sales To China
Hunter News
Hurricane News
Kingston's Aircraft Industry
Members' e-mail Addresses
Members
Programme
Restoring Hawker Biplanes
Royal Air Force Club Visit
Sea fury News
Sea Harrier News
Sir Keith Park Memorial
Windsor Camm Appeal
View From The Hover
 
Hurricane News
 
    Royal Canadian Air Force Hurricane IIB, G-HHII/5403, belonging to the Hangar 11 Collection was moved from Hawker Restorations at Milden, Suffolk, to North Weald after completion of systems testing. Painted as a 174 Squadron 'Hurribomber' the aircraft will carry a pair of fibreglass and steel dummy 250 lb bombs. It is planned that it will appear at airshows during 2009.
Sea Fury News

    Sea Fury TMk20 VX281/G-RNHF has arrived at RNAS Yeovilton by road from North Weald. It is being prepared for the 2009 season which celebrates the centenary of the founding of the Royal Naval Air Service and the placing by the Admiralty of the first order for its first aircraft, His Majesty's Airship One, the Mayfly, on 7 May 1909. Events include a fly past HMS Illustrious at Greenwich on 7 May, a fly past over Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey, the home of the first Royal Naval Air Station, on 24 July, Culdrose Air Day on 29 July and another fly past HMS Illustrious, this time in Liverpool, on 17 October.