 Hawker died in the "Kyeema" airplane disaster near Mount Dandenong, Victoria in 1938.A memorial was established at St Michael's Anglican Church at Bungaree.The Australian Electoral Division of Hawker and the Canberra suburb of Hawker, Australian Capital Territory are named in his honour, and the Charles Allan Seymour Hawker Scholarship was established by his sister Kathleen Lilias Needham in 1991 to fund Australian university education.