CC&F Hawker Hurricane, RCAF 5481, which has been flying in Australia since 2015, was transported to the wharf in Sydney yesterday, to be shipped to the UK for its new owner. I have temporarily removed it from the flyers list and will add it back on once it flies again in England.
This particular Hurricane originally served with the RCAF Training Command in Canada, between October 1942 and November 1944, when it was struck off charge. The fuselage was recovered from a farm in 1984, and Terry Dieno of Saskatchewan soon acquired it and began the restoration. The project was then sold to Charles Church in the UK in 1986, where it was ultimately completed. It was briefly registered as G-ORGI, between 1989-1991, when with Charles Church, and that registration remains available if it were to be re-registered again with those same letters. It was sold to David Price (Museum of Flying in Santa Monica, CA) in 1991, and was registered in the US as N678DP. It was not flown much when in the US, though Skip Holm flew it and wrote a fantastic pilot report about it for Warbirds International, back around 2003 I think. Ed Russel, of Niagra Falls, Ontario, acquired the Hurricane around 2004, and it was registered as C-FDNL in Canada. It was sold and exported to Australia in 2013, where it underwent restoration with Pays Air Service at Scone, NSW. Registered as VH-JFW, it was completed in 2015, and has been painted in the markings of Hurricane Mk.1 V6748, assigned to No 46 RAF Squadron, flown by John Dallas Crossman during the Battle of Britain.
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