Hawker Hurricane serial numbers

[tonybaloney]

Originally Posted by bolox

A/C lost (with code if known) from july-sept

N2485/W
P3084/E
P3082/T
P33808
P3646/A
P3803/H
P3040/P
P3582/E
N2617/M
P2549/A
P3059/N
P3208/T
P3815/O
R4219/G
L1865/R
P3141/W
P3102/G
R4223/L
V6540/N
L1578
P3516
V6612/A
V6646/L
P5200/W
P2793
P2760/B
V6644/H
P3820/Z
V7357/F
V6600/R
V6620
V6645/T
V6672/R
P3417/W
V7497/X
L1657

(hopefully no typos)



click to enlarge- serials with asterisks are spit/tempest

Could you let me know the title of the book this came from please. It looks very useful!
thanks
Simon

[Hood]

Osprey,

see your work or Tiscali email addy as I've sent you a doc showing some numbers plus the bases they used.

Hood

[Osprey]

Just come back to this. Thank you Gents.

[Osprey]

Originally Posted by the_soupdragon

Osprey
there is a really in depth book called "The Hawker hurricane" by Francis K Mason which lists all the hurries by serial number and what happened to them throughout their careers. It's also a very good read. Unfortunately it doesn't index them by squadron just by serial number.
If you have a mind to look it up you wont be dissapointed, it's a great book.

SD

I will look this up.

BTW, did you know your initials here are the RAF code for No.501?