Hawker Hurricane touches down
A restored Second World War-era aircraft that once patrolled Canada’s West Coast has now landed at a Calgary museum.
After more than 230,000 hours of restoration work, a Hawker Hurricane is now on display at Calgary’s The Hangar Flight Museum.
The Hawker Hurricane was built in Canada in 1942 in Thunder Bay, Ontario. In July 1943 it was moved to Vancouver Island to fly surveillance missions off the coast of British Columbia. The restored aircraft was unveiled during a ceremony at the museum on November 6, 2019. Attending the ceremony was ninety-six-year-old Calgarian Gordon Hill, who flew Hurricane 5389 with Squadron 133.
Hill’s mission was to protect Canada from possible Japanese incursions in the wake of the Pearl Harbor attacks that took place on December 7, 1941.