The Tempest, a late-World War II model designed to succeed the Hawker Typhoon, is a rare bird that came in many versions. The restored model that flew earlier this month is a Mk.II, a variant we ...

Home/ Hawker Typhoon. Hawker Typhoon. Rare Hawker Tempest Takes to the Skies After Restoration Experts say this Mk.II version is the first Tempest to fly in more than 50 years.

The Hawker Typhoon Preservation Group is making progress on the reconstruction of Hawker Typhoon Mk.Ib RB396, beginning with the aircraft's original rear fuselage. Here is the latest update.

For more than eight years now, we at Vintage Aviation News have been extensively covering the efforts of the Hawker Typhoon Preservation Group to rebuild Typhoon Mk.IIb RB936 back to airworthy ...

Slater says they're restoring Hawker Typhoon Serial No. JP843 to remind people of the sacrifices made by Canadians who served during the war. But they don't want it to be just a museum piece.

The new Typhoon livery replicates a Hawker Typhoon MK1 flown in WW2. Flt Lt Nina Wilkinson, manager of the Typhoon display team, said it had been a complicated process to repaint the jet.