Designed in the late 1930s, when monoplanes were considered unstable and too radical to be successful, the Hurricane was the first British monoplane fighter and the first British fighter to exceed 483 kilometers (300 miles) per hour in level flight. Hurricane pilots fought the Luftwaffe and helped win the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940.
Hawker Hurricane
Mk.IIc
This Hurricane Mk.IIC was built at the Langley factory in early 1944. It was part of the last RAF Hurricane order and was delivered to No.41 Operational Training Unit at RAF Hawarden on 15 April 1944. An RAF transport hauled the fighter to the US in 1969 and the Garber Facility completed its restoration it in 2000.