Hawker Hurricane IIB, possibly AP740Photographed at the Vadim Zadorozhny Museum of Technology, Krasnogorsky, near Moscow, Russia, on 22 August 2009.
If this actually is AP740, it was restored by the Voenno-Patrioticheskoe Obshestvo “Vysota” (the Military-Patriotic Association “Height”) in Kolpino, St. Petersburg.
The plaque in front of it reads:
"[The] Hurricane II was introduced into the inventory of the RAF in September 1940. Th[is] fighter had the improved Merlin XX engine, [enlarged] rear-view mirror and modified oil cooler. [The] Hurricane was used not only as fighter but also as the fighter-bomber, ground attack aircraft, short-range reconnaissance plane and rescue aircraft.
Hurricane II airplanes were delivered to the USSR under the Lend-Lease agreement. In [the] Soviet Air Force, the fighters received native 20-mm ShVAK cannons and 12[.]7-mm UBS machine guns.
This particular aircraft was found in the area of so-called 'Neva Patch' in 2008. {It had been] piloted by Aleksandr Fedorovich Myasnikov (born on {9 September] 1909), who fought at the Leningrad Front and was killed in [] air combat on 11 September 1942. A.F. Myasnikov was born in Mashinsky area of Novgorod region, during his Air Force service had 315 combat missions and shot down 18 enemy planes. He was awarded [] the Order of Lenin and two Orders of [the] Red Banner."
Picture added on 04 September 2009 at 10:57
Added by Peter Langsdale on 04 September 2009.