These bran new fighters were test flown by 118 squadron pilots upon arrival or reasembly. Many were put in temporary storage, the few others still leaving with the RAF were also test flown by 118 pilots prior to fitting to catapult equipped merchant vessels. 118 Sqn formed a “Hurricane Flight” and more than a dozen were regularly flown by squadron personnel. 118 was thus operating a full complement of Kittyhawks, Sea Hurricanes, and a few Harvards, and was still flying its Gobblins well into January 1942. These catapult spool and arrestor hook equipped Sea Hurricanes were painted in British Fleet Air Arm paint scheme of dark greys with ROYAL NAVY painted on the fuselage, looking oddly out of place on an RCAF ramp.