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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hurricane
    Latest Model:Hurricane XII
    Last Military Serial:5389 RCAF
    Construction Number:814/42024
    Compressed ID:Canadian Car and Foundry Hurricane...
    Latest Owner or Location:The Hangar Flight Museum, Calgary International Airport, Calgary, Alberta

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    Dates

    Event

    1942

    Constructed as a Hurricane XII by Canadian Car and Foundry at Fort William, ON, Canada.

    May 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 5389 and operated with these markings: M.

    August 1946

    To Robert R. Hamilton, 3915 Montague Saint. Regina, SK.
    And stored on his farm.

    To Ed Fleming, Calgary.

    1962

    To Lynn Garrison.

    Two Hurricane fighters, 5424 and 5389 were transported to Calgary - courtesy of Wolton Lumber Company, and placed in the Shell Oil Pipeline storage yard on Edmonton Trail, Calgary.

    2011

    On 21 December 2011, the City of Calgary awards the restoration of Crabapple Hurricane fighter 5389 to the Calgary Mosquito Society. The fighter is moved to Historic Aviation Services in Wetaskiwin on 27 October 2012, for restoration to taxi condition. The restoration is expected to be completed a year from now, summer 2018. Only three RCAF original Crabapple Hurricane fighters survive, and two are back together at Wetaskiwin, Alberta.


    Photographer: Richard de Boer

    To The Hangar Flight Museum, Calgary International Airport, Calgary, AB.
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