File:Hawker Typhoon IB ‘MN235 I8-T’ (51086536452).jpg

c/n unknown Built in 1944 by Glosters at Hucclecote and first flew on 8th February 1944. She did not see squadron service and was instead shipped to the USA for evaluation as a fighter-bomber. At Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio she was given the evaluation identity T2-491 / FE-491 but flew only nine hours before being put in store at Freeman Field. In 1949 she was allocated to the National Air Museum and was stored dismantled at the disused Douglas aircraft factory site at Park Ridge, Illinois. In 1955 she moved to Silver Hill, Maryland, and in to the facility which became the Paul E Garber facility for the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. In 1967 it was arranged that the Typhoon would be swapped for a Hurricane and she came to the UK in early 1968, with Hurricane IIc LF686 going the other way in 1969. The Typhoon was restored at RAF Shawbury and was completed in late 1968. She went on display at Hendon in November 1972 when the museum opened and remained there until November 2013 when she was taken to Cosford for further restoration work. During the work she was repainted in the colours of 440 Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force and in May 2014 she was flown to Canada inside a Canadian Air Force C-17 Globemaster. She was on display at the Canada Aviation and Space museum at Rockliffe, Ottawa, from June 2014 till April 2018. He was then shipped back to the UK and was reassembled at RAF Coningsby. After a short time sharing the airfield with the type’s current namesake, she was moved to Hendon that October and is now on display in Hangar 3. RAF Museum London. Hendon, Greater London, UK