These walk-around photos were taken at the RAF Museum London in Hendon in 2019. They show a Hawker Typhoon Mk.IB, serial MN235 — the only complete surviving Typhoon in the world. The Typhoon had a troubled start in service, plagued by engine failures and structural problems, but eventually found its true calling as a devastating low-level ground attack aircraft. Armed with four 20mm cannon and eight rockets or two 1,000lb bombs, it became the scourge of German armour and transport during the Normandy campaign and the liberation of Western Europe — so feared by German tank crews that they called it simply "Jabos". Its massive 24-cylinder Napier Sabre engine gave it a top speed of over 400 mph at low altitude, making it the fastest Allied fighter at that height. Built by the Gloster Aeroplane Company at Hucclecote in February 1944, MN235 never flew with the RAF in combat. Instead it was shipped to the United States for evaluation at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, but following a minor accident after just nine flying hours it was placed in storage, eventually passing to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. It never went on public display in America. In 1967 it was presented back to the RAF Museum in exchange for a Hurricane, restored at RAF Shawbury, and has been on display at Hendon since the museum opened in 1972 — the sole witness to a type that flew over 3,300 strong.