File:Curtiss Hawk 75 'No82 - X-8' (G-CCVH) (22537431032).jpg

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c/n 12881. Owned and operated by The Fighter Collection. 2015 Flying Legends Airshow. Duxford, Cambridgeshire, UK. 12-7-2015

The following info comes from the Fighter Collection website.

"The Curtiss H-75 was a private venture which flew for the first time in May 1935. Following development and a new engine, three prototype aircraft were ordered by the US Army Air Corps under the designation Y1P-36. This eventually led to the P-36 lineage which went on to serve with around a dozen air arms across the world, including the USAAC as the P-36, the RAF as the Mohawk, and France as the H-75. Our Hawk is one of the 100 in the first production batch sent to the French Air Force, and given the individual aircraft number 82, arriving in April 1939. Issued to 1ére Escadrille, Groupe de Combat 11/5 Lafayette at Reims, where she carried the command stripes on the fuselage of the personal aircraft of Commandant Murtin, CO of both GC 1/5 and GC 11/5. She moved to Toul during the Battle of France, and then on to Oran in Algeria before the Armistice. From 1940 to 1942 Hawk No.82′s Squadron was engaged in sporadic skirmishes with RAF and USN aircraft over Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. Between 1946 and 1949 Hawk No.82 was with the 4th Training Squadron at Cazaux in Western France serving as an advanced trainer with 22 other H-75s. Hawk No.82 was saved from scrapping in the 1950′s and was placed in storage in France until acquired by TFC in 1995. Following a major overhaul in the US she made her UK debut in 2005.

Our Hawk wears an authentic Armée de l’Air standard three-tone scheme, with her GC 11/5 markings on her port, and the Lafeyette Escadrille Sioux Indian head motif (the TFC logo) on her starboard side."
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Source Curtiss Hawk 75 'No82 / X-8' (G-CCVH)
Author Alan Wilson from Stilton, Peterborough, Cambs, UK
Camera location52° 05′ 27.3″ N, 0° 07′ 28.11″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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