page_title: Hawker Hurricane
section_title: Specifications (Hurricane Mk.IIC)
hierarchical_section_title: Hawker Hurricane / Specifications (Hurricane Mk.IIC)
context_page_description: The Hawker Hurricane is a British single-seat fighter aircraft of the 1930s–40s that was designed and predominantly built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd. for service with the Royal Air Force. It was overshadowed in the public consciousness by the Supermarine Spitfire's role during the Battle of Britain in 1940, but the Hurricane inflicted 60 per cent of the losses sustained by the Luftwaffe in the engagement, and fought in all the major theatres of the Second World War.
  The Hurricane originated from discussions between RAF officials and aircraft designer Sir Sydney Camm about a proposed monoplane derivative of the Hawker Fury biplane in the early 1930s. Despite an institutional preference for biplanes and lack of interest from the Air Ministry, Hawker refined their monoplane proposal, incorporating several innovations which became critical to wartime fighter aircraft, including retractable landing gear and the more powerful Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. The Air Ministry ordered Hawker's Interceptor Monoplane in late 1934, and the prototype Hurricane K5083 performed its maiden flight on 6 November 1935.
context_section_description: General characteristics
  Crew: 1
  Length: 32 ft 3 in (9.83 m)
  Wingspan: 40 ft 0 in (12.19 m)
  Height: 13 ft 1.5 in (4.001 m)
  Wing area: 257.5 sq ft (23.92 m²)
  Airfoil: root: Clark YH (19%); tip: Clark YH (12.2%)
  Empty weight: 5,745 lb (2,606 kg)
  Gross weight: 7,670 lb (3,479 kg)
  Max takeoff weight: 8,710 lb (3,951 kg)
  Powerplant: 1 × Rolls-Royce Merlin XX V-12 liquid-cooled piston engine, 1,185 hp (884 kW)   at 21,000 ft (6,400 m)
  Performance
  Maximum speed: 340 mph (550 km/h, 300 kn) at 21,000 ft (6,400 m) 
  Range: 600 mi (970 km, 520 nmi)
  Service ceiling: 36,000 ft (11,000 m)
  Rate of climb: 2,780 ft/min (14.1 m/s)
  Wing loading: 29.8 lb/sq ft (145 kg/m²)
  Power/mass: 0.15 hp/lb (0.25 kW/kg)
  Armament
  Guns: 4 × 20 mm (.79 in) Hispano Mk II cannon
  Bombs: 2 × 250 or 500 lb (110 or 230 kg) bombs
caption: A Hawker Hurricane on display at the National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center of the Smithsonian Institution
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