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==Surviving aircraft== [[File:Hawker Typhoon at RAF Museum.jpg|thumb|upright=1.36|Hawker Typhoon ''MN235'' at the [[Royal Air Force Museum London]]; the only surviving Typhoon]] Only one complete Hawker Typhoon still survives: [[United Kingdom military aircraft serials|serial number]] ''MN235''. Originally on display at the [[National Air and Space Museum]] (part of the [[Smithsonian Institution]]) in the United States, it was presented to the [[RAF Museum]] in [[Hendon]], North London in commemoration of the RAF's 50th Anniversary in exchange for a Hawker Hurricane. The aircraft was on loan to the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, Canada.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://casmuseum.techno-science.ca/en/whats-on/exhibition-hawker-typhoon.php |title=Canada Aviation and Space Museum: Exhibitions - Hawker Typhoon IB |access-date=18 December 2016 |archive-date=20 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220181813/http://casmuseum.techno-science.ca/en/whats-on/exhibition-hawker-typhoon.php |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was briefly on show in the [[Battle of Britain Memorial Flight]] hangar at [[RAF Coningsby]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.raf.mod.uk/our-organisation/stations/raf-coningsby/news/hawker-typhoon-arrives-at-raf-coningsby/|title=Hawker Typhoon arrives at RAF Coningsby {{!}} Royal Air Force|website=www.raf.mod.uk|language=en-gb|access-date=30 July 2018}}</ref> but returned to the [[Royal Air Force Museum London]] in November 2018.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/london/whats-going-on/news/the-reconstruction-of-hawker-typhoon-mk-ib-mn235/|title=The Reconstruction of Hawker Typhoon Mk. IB MN235 {{!}} Royal Air Force Museum|newspaper=Raf Museum|language=en-gb|access-date=29 November 2018}}</ref> Several other partial airframes are extant: * Typhoon Ib ''EJ922'', previously privately-owned, bought by [[Hawker Typhoon Preservation Group]], UK, for incorporation into ''RB396''.<ref name="hawkertyphoon.com">{{cite web |url=https://hawkertyphoon.com/ |title=Home |website=hawkertyphoon.com}}</ref> * Typhoon Ib ''JP843'', Typhoon Legacy Co. Ltd., Canada, undergoing long term airworthy restoration; formerly of the Roger Marley Collection<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.typhoonlegacy.com/ |title=Home |website=typhoonlegacy.com}}</ref> * Typhoon Ia ''JR505'', Brian Barnes Collection, UK * Typhoon Ib ''RB396''/G-TIFY, Hawker Typhoon Preservation Group, undergoing airworthy restoration by Airframe Assemblies on the [[Isle of Wight]] and the Aircraft Restoration Company at [[Duxford]]<ref name="hawkertyphoon.com"/> An unidentified cockpit section is on display at the [[Imperial War Museum Duxford]], and another – the only known original "car door" example – is subject to a static restoration by the [[Jet Age Museum]] in [[Gloucester]]. [[File:Memorial Avion.jpg|thumb|upright=1.36|Hawker Typhoon replica on show at the [[Mémorial de Caen]], Normandy]] A Hawker Typhoon replica on display at the [[Mémorial de Caen|''Mémorial de la Paix'']] at [[Caen]], France, was constructed using some original components. ===Memorial=== On 9 June 1994, in recognition of the aircraft and crew's role in the [[Invasion of Normandy|liberation of Normandy]], a Typhoon memorial was dedicated by Major M. Roland Heudier at [[Noyers-Bocage]], France. Also present at the ceremony were General Yves Paul Ezanno [[Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)|DFC]] and bar and Squadron Leader Denis Sweeting, both former Squadron Leaders of [[No. 198 Squadron RAF]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090213034529/http://www.napierheritage.org.uk/spip.php?article100443 "Typhoon Memorial"]. ''napierheritage.org.'' Retrieved: 31 July 2011.</ref>
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