In the Battle of Britain the Hurricane inflicted 60 percent of the Luftwaffe's losses, Wikipedia says, yet the Spitfire took most of the fame. Hawker and Canadian factories built 14,487.
Today the survivor list marks 19 Hurricanes airworthy, against 78 Spitfires on the Spitfire list. 10 of the airworthy Hurricanes are in the United Kingdom.
Register as of October 15, 2026. Survivor list as of October 27, 2026.
Hurricanes and Sea Hurricanes
The survivor list keeps the naval Sea Hurricanes in their own section. This page counts both: 15 Hurricanes and 4 Sea Hurricanes are marked airworthy, and in the United States the split is 2 and 1.
The Spitfire page counts the fighter the Hurricane flew beside in 1940, from the same kind of volunteer list.
Two ways to count Hurricanes
The FAA register and the survivor list answer different questions, and each has blind spots.
| Count | Hurricanes | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| FAA active registrations | 4 | United States only. Includes aircraft under restoration, in storage or on display. |
| Survivor list, listed airworthy | 19 | Volunteer-edited, not an official record. The list covers 13 countries. |
| Survivor list, US airworthy | 3 | The US share of the list's airworthy aircraft. |
| Survivor list, all statuses | 47 | 19 airworthy, 22 on display, 6 under restoration or in storage. |
Where the airworthy Hurricanes are
Listed as airworthy by country, volunteer list revision of October 27, 2026
Who holds them
With only 4 on the register, this page doesn't break the owners or their states down. At that size a chart would point at individual owners, so the counts stay in the totals.
What powers them
All of the 4 registered Hurricanes with an engine on record list a Merlin, Rolls-Royce or Packard-built.
Which airworthiness category they hold
4 are Experimental, a category the FAA issues for purposes that include exhibition and air racing under 14 CFR 21.191.
The accident record: 1 event
The NTSB database holds 1 Hurricane accident record from 2008. None was fatal. 1 of today's 4 registrations appears on an accident record, and that one after the aircraft was substantially damaged or destroyed. With this few aircraft and events, it's a count, not a trend.
More from the same maker: Hawker Aircraft warbirds on the US register.
The Warbirds in America hub breaks down all 36 types by purpose of flight, phase of flight and pilot experience.
A handful in America
Hawker's first Hurricane flew in November 1935 and the type entered squadron service in December 1937. The survivor list now finds 47 Hurricanes and Sea Hurricanes in 13 countries.
19 are marked airworthy. The FAA register holds 4, and 3 of the list's airworthy aircraft are in the United States.
Questions people ask
How many Hurricanes are still flying?
No official body publishes a count of airworthy Hurricanes. A volunteer-edited Wikipedia list (revision of October 27, 2026) shows 19 listed as airworthy worldwide, 3 of them in the United States. The FAA register shows 4 active US registrations, which includes aircraft under restoration, in storage or on display.
How many Hurricanes were built?
Wikipedia counts 14,487 Hurricanes built in the United Kingdom and Canada between 1937 and 1944.
How many Hurricanes have been in accidents?
The NTSB database holds 1 Hurricane accident record from 2008. None was fatal. That's a count, not a rate, because the database has no flight hours.
How many Sea Hurricanes are still flying?
The survivor list marks 4 Sea Hurricanes as airworthy, 1 of them in the United States. They're included in this page's total of 19.
Download the data
The counts on this page are available as a CSV: Hurricane register summary. A table covering every warbird type is on the hub. To cite this page: PlanePassion, "How many Hawker Hurricanes are still flying?", based on FAA, NTSB and public records, November 4, 2026.