Official feed for Hurricane Heritage. We operate BE505, the worldโs only 2-seat Hurricane and R4118, the only airworthy Hurricane from the Battle of Britain.
Weโre really fortunate to operate the worldโs only 2-seat Hurricane, and getting to deliver the โexperience of a lifetimeโ on every, single flight is an incredible privilege. Take a look at this short video of one of this yearsโ customers. ๐
Absolutely unbelievable video: Alain de Cadenet delivers a brilliant piece to camera.... and then Ray Hanna flies the lowest of low passes in MH434. Gets quite a reaction ๐คฃ. An oldie, but if this doesnโt cheer you up on lockdown, nothing will ๐
Today marks the 88th anniversary of first flight of the Hawker Hurricane. In our view, the most important British fighter of WWII. Happy birthday Hurricane!
80 years ago today, the Battle of Britain began. โฆ
@HurricaneR4118
โฉ is the most complete surviving Hurricane from the battle and flew 49 sorties from โฆ
@CroydonAirport
โฉ with 605 squadron. 8 decades on, we still owe huge gratitude to โThe Fewโ.
#BattleOfBritain
BIG NEWS: Very excited to finally announce that the worldโs only 2-seat Hurricane - BE505 - is joining the Hurricane Heritage fleet in 2022! Weโll be tweeting a lot more about this in the coming months, but more details can be found on our website:
We had the enormous privilege of flying 102-year-old Jeff Brereton in โPegsโ yesterday, with R4118 in formation. Jeff was a fitter on R4118 in the Battle of Britain, but didnโt get to see her from this angle until 83 years later. A very emotional experience!
The Hurricane Heritage team had the huge privilege of reuniting Jeff Brereton with R4118 at
@IWMDuxford
today. Jeff was a fitter with 605 Sqn, based at Croydon in the summer of 1940 and actually worked on R4118 during the Battle of Britain. An incredible day.
A โpinch yourselfโ moment at
@IWMDuxford
yesterday in formation with 3 Spitfires. Thank you to the superb team at ARCo for making this possibleโฆ. And the best bit is that I get to do it all again today ๐
Breaking away from the Vic of 3 Spitfires at the
@IWMDuxford
Summer Airshow on Saturday. The Spitfires went into a tailshase, while I climbed to 3000โ for my solo display. An epic weekend!
@ACDuxford
83 years ago, R4118 was intercepting Messerschmitts in anger over Kent. This clip was en-route to Villaroche for the โAir Legendโ airshow last Friday, but certainly gave a small sense of what the experience must have been likeโฆ
@AirLegendJMA
@Ultimate_Aeros
Going to be a beautiful weekend, so more videos to come. Hereโs something we shot last weekend of BE505 along the north coast of the Isle of Wight heading towards The Needles. Thereโs something about a Hurricane with white cliffs in the background ๐
Itโs an absolute privilege to be the custodian of this beautiful
#BattleOfBritain
veteran. She flew 49 operational sorties from Croydon with 605 Sqn during September and October 1940 and sheโs still flying today. Photo credit:
@JohnMDibbs
#BattleOfBritain80
#LestWeForget
Just climbed out of the Hurricane after my display at โฆ
@IWMDuxford
โฉ today, when I realized I had the best seat in the house for the arrival of the โฆ
@RAFBBMF
โฉ
86 years ago today - on the 6th November 1935 - the prototype Hurricane took to the skies for the first time. Itโs a privilege to keep this beautiful aircraft flying nearly nine decades later
On 6th November 1935, Flight Lt George Bulman took the prototype Hurricane aloft for the first time from Brooklands aerodrome. 87 years later, this beautiful aircraft is still gracing our skies, and weโre privileged to operate the worldโs only 2-seater. Happy birthday Hurricane!
Jon Gowdy on short final in Mk1 Spitfire, N3200, after leading the โDuxford Wingโ in the finale of the
@IWMDuxford
airshow last Saturday evening
@ACDuxford
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.
#RemembranceDay
Jeff Brereton was a fitter with 605 Squadron during the Battle of Britain. His first job was to patch bullet holes on R4118. Today he came back to see his Hurricane at โฆ
@WLACFlying
โฉ and signed the emergency exit panel. This has made my year ๐ โฆ
@OC605Sqn
โฉ
The 15th September is Battle of Britain day, so it seems appropriate to post a video from the Battle of Britain balbo flypast
@IWMDuxford_
. The view from inside
@HurricaneR4118
.
100-year old Jeff Brereton was a fitter with 605 Squadron at Croydon during the Battle of Britain, where he worked on R4118. He was considered lucky by the aircrew as his aircraft always returned unscathed. Here he is rubbing a bit of good luck back into R4118 81 years later