Aircraft
Category
Models
Date
1938
Materials
wood and metal
Measurements
36 x 162 x 135 mm
Place of origin
Great Britain
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 1655827.26
Summary
A Hawker Hurricane 1, an assembled and handpainted 'Skybird' model aircraft. Kit number 3A, 1938. Dark green and dark brown camouflage upper surfaces. Underneath right wing, fuselage and tail plane painted silver, left wing painted black. Red white blue and yellow roundels above and on fuselage sides, red white and blue roundel underneath on right wing only. Left undercarriage wheel is missing. Number 26 of a large collection of painted 1:70/1:72 wood and early plastic 'Skybird' aircraft models and others, mostly 1930s to 1940s.
Provenance
Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the National Trust, 2013