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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hunter
    Latest Model:Hunter T.7
    Last Military Serial:XL612 RAF
    Construction Number:41H-695346
    Compressed ID:Hawker Hunter T.7 sn XL612 RAF cn 4...
    Latest Owner or Location:La Marsaudiere, Saix, Tours, Cinq-Mars-la-Pile

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    Dates

    Event

    1958

    Constructed as a Hunter T.7.

    From January 1959 to 2001

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XL612.

    Circa 1976


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Greenham Common.

    To unknown owner.
    Stored at Exeter Airport.

    29 July 1994


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: On finals to Fairford.

    17 September 1994


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Hunter T.7 of the Empire Test Pilots School based at Boscombe Down on display at the 1994 RAF Leuchars Airshow.

    10 August 2001

    Last flight.
    On final flight with the Empire Test Pilots School.

    8 January 2012

    Transported by ground.
    From Exeter Airport to Swansea Airport.

    To Swansea Airport, Langrove-Fairwood, Swansea, Wales.
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    4 December 2013


    Photographer: Brian Gibbens
    Notes: 2013 photo taken at Swansea Airport

    July 2017

    Transported by ground.
    Moved from Swansea Airport to RAF St. Athan.

    11 December 2017

    Transported by ground.
    Moved to France.

    By January 2019

    To La Marsaudiere, Saix, Tours, Cinq-Mars-La-Pile.
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     United Kingdom Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee amp; Wood
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     Andrew Appleton
    Terry Fletcher
    Peter Nicholson
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