More Questions about Hurricanes

[paulmcmillan]

"And does anyone know the serial number of the twelth a/c sent to Finland ?"

The 12 serials are: N2322
N2323
N2324
N2325
N2327
N2347
N2348
N2350
N2392
N2393
N2394
N2395


"N2358 is the aircraft often stated (mistakenly) in various sources as being sold to Finland
The doubt about N2350 vs. N2358 is partly because N2358 had been in service with No.79 Squadron
only a few weeks before the transfer to Finland, (unlike all the other listed aircraft) and
there is no record of it leaving that unit - but 79 Sqdn arrived in France the day the German
invaded and records may well not have survived to show what happened to their aircraft.
N2358 was delivered to No.79 Squadron. on 23.12.39. Also (despite FK Mason saying that N2350
was flown to France and abandoned there) there is no record of a fate for N2350 on the A.M. card,
but its engine number (A.119136, R-R serial number 3921) is that shown in Finnish records for HC-455.
It can now be established that N2358 never went to Finland.
There is an IWM photo of N2358 taken in France in April 1940, coded 'Z' and apparently of
No.1 Squadron at Vassincourt, whereas the aircraft for Finland were all delivered in February 1940.
Tie-ups of engine serial numbers suggest that the supposed N2358 sent to Finland was actually N2350.”