Lord Trefgarne (left) and Duncan Simpson pull back the covers to reveal the Eagle Squadron crest on the cowling of Hurricane IIA Z2389 on November 6.

Former Hawker test pilot Duncan Simpson and Lord Trefgarne unveiled Hawker Hurricane IIA Z2389 at the Brooklands Museum on November 6. The historic fighter has been restored over the last 13 years by a team led by Roy Lomax. The Hurricane will ultimately be engine- runnable. The Rolls-Royce Merlin III recently arrived back at Brooklands after inspection and repair at the Rolls-Royce Heritage Centre in Derby, and was temporarily fitted for the ceremony. It awaits exhausts and plumbing before being run. 

The aeroplane has been painted in the No 71 (Eagle) Sqn American volunteer unit marking in which it flew from Martlesham Heath in 1941. It subsequently went to the Soviet Union, and was recovered from a crash site on the Kola Peninsula in the far north of Russia in 1996.