Hurricane Mk I

Hurricane Mk I

Family
Hawker Hurricane
Class
Fighter
Produced
4,200
Changes
Eight Brownings in the wings. Early aircraft had the Merlin II, a fabric-covered wing and a two-blade fixed-pitch Watts propeller; mid and late production the Merlin III with a de Havilland or Rotol propeller and a metal-skinned wing, armour from about May 1940. The total includes 426 built by Canadian Car and Foundry.
Crew
1
Engines
1

Armament

WeaponCountPosition
Browning .303 Mk II8Wing

Service

≈ 21 Oct 1939 – Dec 1941
≈ May 1940 – 7 Jun 1940
≈ 19 Jun 1940 – Dec 1941
≈ Jun 1940 – Dec 1941
≈ 10 May 1940 – 28 May 1940
≈ 6 Apr 1941 – 17 Apr 1941
≈ 3 Jul 1941 – Jan 1942