These walk-around photos were taken at the RAF Museum London in Hendon in 2019. They show a Hawker Hurricane Mk I, serial P2617, displayed in the markings of No. 607 (County of Durham) Squadron RAF — a genuine combat veteran of both the Battle of France and the Battle of Britain. The Hurricane was the RAF's first monoplane fighter and the numerical backbone of Fighter Command in 1940, accounting for more enemy aircraft destroyed during the Battle of Britain than all other defences combined. Though overshadowed in popular memory by the Spitfire, it was more rugged, easier to repair and better suited to the low-level attacks on German bomber formations that dominated the fighting. Built by Gloster Aircraft at Brockworth and delivered in January 1940, P2617 was sent to France with No. 607 Squadron as part of the British Expeditionary Force, flying its first combat sorties on 10 May 1940 — the opening day of the German offensive. It was evacuated to Croydon ten days later and continued flying through the Battle of Britain before passing to training units for the remainder of the war. Selected for preservation by the Air Historical Branch in April 1944, it later appeared in the 1951 film Angels One Five and the 1956 Douglas Bader biopic Reach for the Sky. It has been on display at Hendon since the museum opened in 1972.