Just one Sea Hurricane survives in naval configuration: this is, of course, the Shuttleworth Collection's Mklb Z7015/G-BKTH. A Canadian Car and Foundry-built example first flown on 18 January 1941, it was shipped to Britain and converted for FAA use by General Aircraft Ltd. Z7015 was delivered that July to RNAS Yeovilton, entering service with 880 Squadron and being despatched with that unit to RNAS Hatston in the Orkneys. 880 embarked on HMS Indomitable during October 1941, but Z7015 was unserviceable and missed out. Following a period of repair, the aircraft returned to Yeovilton on the strength of 759 Squadron (the Naval Fighter School) in December 1942. By the following autumn it had been retired to Loughborough College as an instructional airframe. Later acquired by Shuttleworth, Z7015 spent many years as Old Warden Aerodrome's 'gate guard'. A joint Shuttleworth/lmperial War Museum restoration was carried out at Duxford from 1986, culminating in a maiden flight on 16 September 1995. It wears the markings of 880 Squadron.
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