Hurricane lost 9 December 1939

[Peter Cornwell]

Hi Paul,

Yes, I believe so.

[Peter T]

Hi Peter C. and Mirek,

There is little I can add. H.39 was lost during the crash by Capt. van den Hove on 2 March 1940. But H.39 was not the plane that landed in Esplechin. Like Peter C. wrote this a/c was discovered in the hangar of the Wevelgem airfield.

Personally I do not think the Belgian had several three bladed Hurricanes in service, and I'm wondering how H.39 ended up in the Aéronautique? It may have been given to compensate the incident of 9 September 1939???

Peter T

[Mirek Wawrzynski]

Hi Peter T
There is a vicius circle and I can not undrestand this. If this three blade HC was included to BAF and he was indeed there (there is a photo of it, which is clear and visible "blac H" under the right wing - markings of BAF), what else HC with three balde did BAF has on the inventory? I think that no other, only this specific one.
The former 3 ex-RAF HCs got smaller BAF codes and were on Belgian inventory too. Belgain had "got" form RAF 4 HCs by incident.

There were no other landing in Belgian servicable HC before 10 V 1940.
2 more had landed (or force landed) after 10 V 1940.

See the other but similar discution

http://www.luftwaffe-experten.org/fo...t=0&#entry6200

the part of it:
"(...)Air Britain registers report there where two other RAF Hurricane's interned in Belgium. N2547 at Hingene on May 11th 1940 and L1640 at Wevelgem on May 15th 1940 (...)".


All this history has none sense if H-39 and the 3 blade HC (N2361) is not the same plane. The rest HCs in Belgain service had 2 blades propeller, even licence build (2 more).

BTW
Belgain had ordered 20 HCs, they had got less (15, If I am right remember), the force landed were treated by both Belgian and British as fulfilment the "gap", I think, so there were no exchane one for one HC.

[Peter T]

Mirek,

I’m sure N2361 and H39 are different planes. If you do not want to believe this, that’s your problem.

Peter T

[montana]

Maybe Peter will be interested by the following information :
on Saturday 11 May 1940, Sqn/Ldr Tomlinson from 17 Sqn landed at Hingene (airfield n°15) with his Hurricane N2547 riddled with bullets and short of fuel. At 19.15 h, the SRD/Aé (Service de Réparation et de Dépannage de l'Aéronautique Militaire) received a message from the II./Aé saying to dismantle and convoy this aircraft to Wevelgem.
I don't know whether this Hurricane ended at Wevelgem or not...