Hawker Hurricane L1592, Science Museum London

The Hurricane shot down more enemy aircraft in the Battle of Britain than the Spitfire, and L1592 is a genuine veteran of that summer. Built in 1938, it was flying with 615 Squadron when it crash-landed at Croydon on 18 August 1940, the day remembered as the Hardest Day. It now hangs in the Flight gallery of the Science Museum in South Kensington in its KW-Z codes, close to a Spitfire of the same vintage, and has been kept largely unrestored since it was saved in 1944.