HAWKER

HURRICANE

To navigate this section click on any serial number in the boxes below to take you directly there. Alternatively you can use the right hand scroll bar to browse down all listings. If a serial number is coloured white in the boxes, no other info is known yet but the aircraft has been identified as belonging to113 Squadron.

The following are the Hurricanes on charge with 113 Squadron known to date, be aware there are errors and it is incomplete. Further listings will be added as they are identified.

HURRICANES SERIALS


LE305	??	HW881	HW855	HW666	LA131	KX924
LF287 Y	LD959 S	LE448 R

05/06/1944 LE 305 Hurricane 11C

Destroyed by ground fire - pilot safe

07/09/1944 Type/serial unknown, F/Sgt Henry Livingstone 1557487 Mitchel, age 23. Died 07/09/1944 in South East Asia Cemetery/Memorial: Maynamati War Cemetery, Bangladesh. (Maynamati is approx 7 kms from the centre of Comilla)

14/10/1944 HW881 Hurricane 11C

Struck off charge

24/01/1945 HW855 Hurricane 11C

Ran off runway on takeoff and hit trees on bank

10/01/1946 HW666 Hurricane 11C

Struck off charge

00/00/0000 LA 131 Hurricane 11c

No Fate

00/00/0000 KX 924 Hurricane 11c

No Fate

00/00/0000 LF 287 Hurricane ?? Code Y

No Fate. Known active Sept, Oct 1944 re F/O Graham Skellam

00/00/0000 LD 959 Hurricane ?? Code S

No Fate. Known active Sept, Oct 1944 re F/O Graham Skellam

00/00/0000 LE 448 Hurricane ?? Code R

No Fate. Known active Sept, Oct 1944 re F/O Graham Skellam

Paddy Reed's Hurricane at Enbauk after he had cartwheeled off the strip after striking a mound of stones whilst taking off on an operation. He escaped with only a cut on his knee.

PHOTO SOURCE/Copyright: F/O Colin Ellis