Fate of AAR Hurricane's

Hello Folks,

i search for the fate of AAR Hurricane's
No.1 - No.12.and her pilots.

TIA
magma

One Hurricane was lost prior to the war, another one was shot down by Soviet fighters in Sept. 1941, a third one was destroyed on ground when Soviet fighters strafed the front airfield later in the same month, and a fourth one was flown to Turkey by a defector. The rest were written off while serving as trainers.

BTW, altogether there were 15 Hurricanes in ARR (not AAR) service (12 British and 3 ex-Yugoslav).

Gen. Dénes

This post has been edited by Dénes on July 03, 2005 02:30 pm

Hello Dènes,

thanks for info.
Sorry for my typing error.
Have you any details for the losses ( serial, Pilot, date and cause)?

Regards
Magma

Hi
much more infor about Rumanian Hurricanes you mey see/find in my book Hurricanes in Foreign Service (Belgian, Finnish, Yugoslavia, Germany, Italy, Rumania, Soviet Union users). She was printed in 2001 in Poland.
Polish title: Huricane w obcej służbie. There is a strong English sumary, which is telling more about ARR Hurricanes in comabt (Constanca + Odessa). There are corrose-checked some data with Soviet side.

So far there is the first book, which telling in such scope about comabt use of Hurricanes in Foreign Service (including Rumanian chapter). After 4 years some others details/corrections/news have surfaced, but not so many.

Book has 72 pages, on glossy paper, size A-4, many photos + color drawings, text mainly in Polish + 6 full pages of English sumary.

Frankly I have not yet seen any text in English about this isses, which I can compare and can say that the second one is better, deeper ect..

Regards,
Mirek Wawrzyński
an author of
Hurricanes in Foreing Service (III 2001)
& Ju 87 in Foreign Service (VI 2005)

Hi Mirek,

how and where can i
buy this book.

Regards
Magma

This is a good question,
maybe I can help but I am not sure if she is still avaiable, you may contac me off line

mirwaw_xl@wp.pl

BTW. Let me know where are you from?

Regards
Mirek W

Here is some information on the Hurricane loss that occurred before the war. It is stated that the pilot (Capt. Drăgănescu) lost control of the aircraft and crashed.

Yes, he was the only one killed prior to the war.

Gen. Dénes

Hi
Don`t forget No.8 crashed near ISTAMBUL in August 1944 with Adj.Av.Cordescu Petre.

Yes, I mentioned this incident in my earlier post:

Gen. Dénes

Was it prior or after 23 August 1944?

Capt. Ian Drăgănescu, his HC had stalled on 5 March 1940 on no"9" - KIFA, he was 1st commander of Esc. 53 van. Training on HC Rumanian had finnished on the beginning of 1941.

Mirek Wawrzynski

BTW

On the next post about HC in ARR I have read that Rumanian had assambled HC in the end of 1939.
In my data it was spring 1940, and not so far was German team who assambled first 11 Me 109 E (Pipiera airfiled).
Any coments ?

Hurricane No.8 defected on 26.08.1944.
George

Hi Mirek
My mistake.Hurricane where put in service in March 1940,and the Bf-109 in June 1940.

My fault either, :-)

Ian Drăgănescu, had not been 1st commander of Esc. 53 van. Of coures the first was cpt. av. Ioan „Puiu” Rosescu, soon replaced by cpt. av. Emil Georgescu.

Regards,

MirekW