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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hunter
    Latest Model:Hunter FR.74B
    Last Military Serial:521 RSiAF
    Construction Number:41H-680067
    Last Civil Registration:N8039F
    Compressed ID:Hawker Hunter FR.74B sn 521 RSiAF c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Allan Arthur collection, Tocumwal, New South Wales

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Hunter F.6 by Hawker at Kingston-upon-Thames.

    To RAF Manston History Museum, RAF Manston, Woodchurch, Kent, England.
    Only the nose section survives here.
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    7 November 1956

    First flight.
    Piloted by Duncan Simpson.

    26 November 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XG226.

    Circa 1961

    Converted to a Hunter FGA.9.

    6 May 1971

    To Hawker Siddeley Aviation with new c/r G-9-358.

    Converted to a Hunter FR.74B.

    8 June 1972

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Republic of Singapore with s/n 521.

    September 1998

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Allan Arthur collection, Tocumwal, New South Wales.
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    Civil registration N8039F reserved but not taken up.

    8 February 2011

    Civil registration, N8039F, cancelled.

    10 November 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Nose Section displayed at RAF Manston Museum, Kent

    10 November 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Artwork on Hunter F.6A Nose Section displayed at RAF Manston Museum, Kent
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Hawker Hunter In UK and Foreign Servce 1951-2007 by David J. Griffin
    World Military Out of Service 2015 by Andy Marden
    World Military Out of Service 2015 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Aerodata Quantum+
    Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
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