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Description: Hurricane Mk1 (RAF serial R4118, squadron code UP-W, UK civil registration G-HUPW) at Kemble Open Day, Kemble Airport, Gloucestershire, England. The aircraft was delivered new to 605 (County of Warwick) Squadron in August 1940. It flew 49 combat sorties from Croydon, England, destroying 3 enemy aircraft and damaging 2 others. Still painted in its original markings, R4118 is the only Hurricane from the Battle of Britain still flying.
Title: Hurricane in planform arp
Credit: Own work
Author: Arpingstone
Permission: Photographed by Adrian Pingstone in September 2008 and placed in the public domain.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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