page_title: Hawker Typhoon
section_title: Surviving aircraft
hierarchical_section_title: Hawker Typhoon / Surviving aircraft
context_page_description: The Hawker Typhoon is a British single-seat fighter-bomber, produced by Hawker Aircraft. It was intended to be a medium–high altitude interceptor, as a replacement for the Hawker Hurricane but several design problems were encountered and it never completely satisfied this requirement.
  The Typhoon was originally designed to mount twelve .303 inch Browning machine guns and be powered by the latest 2,000 hp engines. Its service introduction in mid-1941 was plagued with problems and for several months the aircraft faced a doubtful future. When the Luftwaffe brought the formidable Focke-Wulf Fw 190 into service in 1941, the Typhoon was the only RAF fighter capable of catching it at low altitudes; as a result it secured a new role as a low-altitude interceptor.
  The Typhoon became established in roles such as night-time intruder and long-range fighter. From late 1942 the Typhoon was equipped with bombs and from late 1943 RP-3 rockets were added to its armoury. With those weapons and its four 20mm Hispano autocannons, the Typhoon became one of the Second World War's most successful ground-attack aircraft.
context_section_description: Only one complete Hawker Typhoon still survives – serial number MN235. Originally on display at the National Air and Space Museum (part of the Smithsonian Institution) in the United States, it was presented to the RAF Museum in Hendon, North London in commemoration of the RAF's 50th Anniversary in exchange for a Hawker Hurricane. The aircraft was on loan to the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, Canada. It was briefly on show in the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight hangar at RAF Coningsby, but returned to the Royal Air Force Museum London in November 2018.
  Several other partial airframes are extant:
  Typhoon Ib EJ922 Hawker Typhoon Preservation Group, UK
  Typhoon Ia JR505 Brian Barnes Collection, UK
  Typhoon Ib JP843 Typhoon Legacy Co. Ltd., Canada, undergoing long term airworthy restoration; formerly of the Roger Marley Collection
  Typhoon Ib RB396/G-TIFY Hawker Typhoon Preservation Group, UK, undergoing airworthy restoration by Airframe Assemblies on the Isle of Wight and Aircraft Restoration Company at Duxford; formerly on display at Fort Veldhuis museum, Netherlands
  Two unidentified cockpit sections are on display at the Imperial War Museum Duxford, and the Jet Age Museum in Gloucester.
  A Hawker Typhoon replica on display at the Memorial de la Paix at Caen, France, was constructed using some original components.
caption: Hawker Typhoon replica at Memorial de la Paix, Caen
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