Hi Paul
I would be interested in your source related to L2052. According to Air Britain this aeroplane never belonged to 605Sq. It also seems to have had a long and faithful service, ending its days with 59 OTU and SOC April 5th ,1945. All this does not
sound like a fatal crash...
Now, Air Britain also states it crashed with N2358, which seems to be a long shot with it in France and all, and never with 605 Sq either....
But why L2052???
Hi Mirek
I suppose your source for the civil Hurricane registrations is the article by Kari Stenman in Air Enthusiast? I have been looking at the picture published in the article, and to me no former civil registration is visible. Incidentally when Stenman published the same photo the first time, he didn't see any registration either... To state that civil registrations were necessary to pass Sweden is possibly correct,
but on every photo I have seen, on Brewsters, Moranes, Lysanders, DC-2 etc, none is visible. All aeroplanes carried full Finnish serial number and the only caution taken was to paint out the Finnish military insignia making it into a white roundel.
These aeroplanes were assembled in a couple of places (Trollhattan, Gothenburg and Malmo airfields) and also passed a couple of military bases on their way to Finland. Photography was prohibited, so there are not many pictures that has survived. Of course I have not seen any Hurricane shots taken in Sweden...
. But as I said, I am the first to be happy if anyone can provide a civil registered Hurricane in Sweden!!!
Black and white will do just fine...
Cheers
Stig