Dates

Event

Constructed as a Tempest II by Hawker at Langley, Berks.

1945

Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n PR536.

From Circa 1945 to 1947

Transferred to No 5 Squadron RAF, Peshawar, India.
Operated with markings: OQ G

20 September 1947

Taken on Strength/Charge with the Indian Air Force with s/n HA457.

Circa 1953

Withdrawn from front-line service.

From 1969 to By 1977

Transferred to Poona AB, India.
In open storage at Poona and later used as an airfield decoy.

1976

To Warbirds of Great Britain/Doug Arnold.
Acquired by Doug Arnold when the Indian Government Department of Defence sold a larger number of surplus airframes, now derelict is most cases.

1979

Moved from India to Blackbushe.

From 1980 to By 1987

To Tangmere Flight/E. Nick Grace, Tangmere.

Circa 1980

To Nick Grace.

1987

To RAF Museum Store, RAF Cardington.

10 April 1987

The forward fuselage of PR535 was used along with the rear fuselage of a Tempest from the Royal Navy Engineering College, Manadon, and the wings obtained directly from India earlier in 1971.

From Circa September 1989 to December 1989

Moved to Duxford.

From 1990 to 2001

Restored.
Markings Applied: PR536
Restored to static display condition at Duxford.

From 1990 to 1991

To The Fighter Collection, Duxford.

10 November 1991

Transported by ground. Delivered to RAF Museum, Grahame Park Way, Hendon, London, England.
Moved from Duxford to Hendon.
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Markings Applied: OQ H, PR536

2009

Photographer: Andy West

11 December 2011

Photographer: Terry Fletcher
Notes: Hawker Tempest II on display in the Historic Hangars Collection at the RAF Museum at Hendon

Circa 2019

To Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford, Cosford, Shropshire, England.
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