Hawker Hurricane IIc

2 aircraft

The Hawker Hurricane was Britain's first modern monoplane fighter and played a crucial role in winning the Battle of Britain during World War II. First flown on November 6, 1935, it was a low-wing single-engine monoplane powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin inline engine and armed with eight machine guns. Measuring over 32 feet in length with a 40-foot wingspan, the Hurricane could reach speeds exceeding 300 miles per hour. The aircraft was manufactured by Hawker Aircraft Limited, with production totaling 14,233 examples between 1937 and 1944.