The Hawker Fury K5674 G-CBZP c/n 41 H/67550, first served at the 2 ASU from November 1935 to June 1936 when it joined the n°43 squadron RAF based at Tangmere and was the personnal aircraft of Air Chief Marschall Sir Frederick Rosier at the time where he was only a flight officer and the commanding officer of the B Flight, from 9 December 1936 to 22 February 1939 and gave his plane the name of "Queen of North and South". Later, the aircraft went to the 5 MU before to join the 47 MU, its last British based squadron before it was sent to South Africa in August 1940. Arrived on October 1940 at Duban, South Africa, the aircraft received the s/n 215 and was affected to the n°13 sqn at Swartkop on 15 March 1941. On 31 March 1941, 2/lt Peter M. Hedley did a forced landing with it after he ran out of fuel, if the pilot wasn't wounded, the aircraft was damaged and was stored until it was affected to n°2 Air Depot Kimberley where it was scrapped. In 1992, the project of restoration of this aircraft began, in 1994 it was bought by the RAF Museum and, after 15 years during the one original parts of Hawker Fury were searched, the restoration made by Aero Vintage and Historic Aircraft Collection Ltd. permitted to this aircraft to fly again and, thanks to a photo gaven by Sir Rosier's son, with its original painting from 1937. It did its first post-restoration flight on 30th July 2012 at Goodwood, near Tangmere.
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