Uploaded September 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
Eighty years to the day and at the same time of 11.15am that Lord Neville Chamberlain made his speech on the radio that confirmed our involvement in the Second World War, volunteers, staff, Trustees and VIPs gathered at Brooklands Museum to commemorate 20 years’ restoration work of a Hawker Hurricane that flew in that conflict.
The aircraft was first built at Brooklands back in 1940, it served with five RAF squadrons in 1941 before being transferred to Russia where it was shot down in Siberia in 1942. It was Transported by National Rescue back to Brooklands on the 14th October 1997 and was the first historic aircraft to be purchased with a Heritage Lottery Fund grant.
The days events celebrated all the work done on Hurricane Mk IIA Z2389 over the last 20 plus years.
Eighty years to the day and at the same time of 11.15am that Lord Neville Chamberlain made his speech on the radio that confirmed our involvement in the Second World War, volunteers, staff, Trustees and VIPs gathered at Brooklands Museum to commemorate 20 years’ restoration work of a Hawker Hurricane that flew in that conflict.
The aircraft was first built at Brooklands back in 1940, it served with five RAF squadrons in 1941 before being transferred to Russia where it was shot down in Siberia in 1942. It was Transported by National Rescue back to Brooklands on the 14th October 1997 and was the first historic aircraft to be purchased with a Heritage Lottery Fund grant.
The days events celebrated all the work done on Hurricane Mk IIA Z2389 over the last 20 plus years.
