Hello chaps,
I'm trying to find out more about this particular aeroplane.
It first served with 56 Sqn pre-war (no ventral strake), and then was bought back by Hawkers as a test bed. This seems to have been done sometime in late '38 or early 39?
But it is given as being on 151 Sqn in Sept/Oct '39 here:
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Did the serial get replaced by a new airframe, or did Hawker sell it back?
It originally had a fabric-covered wing, but was given a metal one (Mason gave a date, which I don't have rig