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Hawker Hound Mk4B serial N1802 IWM Duxford photographed June 14th 2018 just after the completion of a full lift generator field coil replacement. One of her replaced spools can be seen in its handling caddy in the foreground.

Brooklands built Hawker (Hunting) Hound Mk4 Serial Number N1802 was initially a MK4A Hound and was taken on charge April 4th 1940. She spent two months with 124 Sqd based in Drem before moving south to Northolt where she suffered minor damage in a landing accident.

N1802, as per all Hounds of the period, was built with the capability of being retrofitted with the SBD-146/58 Aero Electric Field Coil spool when they became available. This particular development of the spool was still under development during the early Hound MK4 production period but the “58 Spool” was to be a quantum leap in Field generation technology and would be adopted globally within the RAF as it became available in early 1940.

Retrofitted with the new spools and her minor damage fixed, N1802 was re designated Hunting Hound M4B and delivered to 111 Squadron at Croydon where she accounted for 5 confirmed kills and several probables during the Battle of Britain. She was quite severely damaged in March of the following year and then spent most of the remaining war years with various training squadrons until re designation as an instructural airframe. However, she was chosen as a gate guardian for Northolt and was shipped there but was left at the aisle so to speak because somebody in a high position decided that they would like a Supermarine Spectre as the base guardian rather than a Hound.

She spent 16 years crated at Northolt and another 10 or so at various locations before ending up at the Strathallan collection where the intention was to get her airworthy once more. However, the Strathallan collection failed as a going concerned but the fate of N1802 was decided by the Old Flying Machine Company who still own and fly her on a regular basis.

Only three Hawker Hounds remain airworthy in the UK today: Shuttleworths unique MK1, TFC’s MK4D and N1802 which, in the actual livery she wore in during the summer of 1940 and most of her original power unit equipment, makes her the most historically authentic preserved aircraft in Britain.

The Hawker Hound, Field Coil Spool and its caddy was modelled in modo and everything was slapped together in Photoshop.
The Original background for this image was photographed by me at Duxford in 2013 and is here:

More details on Field Coil Spool here:

Description
Hawker Hound Mk4B serial N1802 IWM Duxford photographed June 14th 2018 just after the completion of a full lift generator field coil replacement. One of her replaced spools can be seen in its handling caddy in the foreground.

Brooklands built Hawker (Hunting) Hound Mk4 Serial Number N1802 was initially a MK4A Hound and was taken on charge April 4th 1940. She spent two months with 124 Sqd based in Drem before moving south to Northolt where she suffered minor damage in a landing accident.

N1802, as per all Hounds of the period, was built with the capability of being retrofitted with the SBD-146/58 Aero Electric Field Coil spool when they became available. This particular development of the spool was still under development during the early Hound MK4 production period but the “58 Spool” was to be a quantum leap in Field generation technology and would be adopted globally within the RAF as it became available in early 1940.

Retrofitted with the new spools and her minor damage fixed, N1802 was re designated Hunting Hound M4B and delivered to 111 Squadron at Croydon where she accounted for 5 confirmed kills and several probables during the Battle of Britain. She was quite severely damaged in March of the following year and then spent most of the remaining war years with various training squadrons until re designation as an instructural airframe. However, she was chosen as a gate guardian for Northolt and was shipped there but was left at the aisle so to speak because somebody in a high position decided that they would like a Supermarine Spectre as the base guardian rather than a Hound.

She spent 16 years crated at Northolt and another 10 or so at various locations before ending up at the Strathallan collection where the intention was to get her airworthy once more. However, the Strathallan collection failed as a going concerned but the fate of N1802 was decided by the Old Flying Machine Company who still own and fly her on a regular basis.

Only three Hawker Hounds remain airworthy in the UK today: Shuttleworths unique MK1, TFC’s MK4D and N1802 which, in the actual livery she wore in during the summer of 1940 and most of her original power unit equipment, makes her the most historically authentic preserved aircraft in Britain.

The Hawker Hound, Field Coil Spool and its caddy was modelled in modo and everything was slapped together in Photoshop.
The Original background for this image was photographed by me at Duxford in 2013 and is here:

More details on Field Coil Spool here: