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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hunter
    Latest Model:Hunter F.58A
    Last Military Serial:J-4152 SwiAF
    Construction Number:41H-670683
    Last Civil Registration:G-9-385
    Compressed ID:Hawker Hunter F.58A sn J-4152 SwiAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fliegermuseum Dubendorf, Dubendorf Airport, Dubendorf, Zurich

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Hunter F.4.

    27 January 1955

    First flight.
    Piloted by Duncan Simpson.

    29 March 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WT716.
    The delivery date is provided.

    Transferred to No 5 MU, RAF Kemble.

    4 December 1956

    Transferred to No 222 Squadron (T).

    20 January 1958

    Transferred to No 5 MU, RAF Kemble.

    Transferred to No 111 (F) Squadron, North Weald.

    12 November 1962

    Transferred to No 8 SoTT Weeton.

    New serial number assigned: 7790M RAF
    Assigned the maintenance serial at Weeton for ground instruction purposes.

    April 1972

    To Hawker Aviation Ltd with new c/r G-9-385.

    Converted to a Hunter F.58A.

    19 February 1975

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Swiss Air Force with s/n J-4152.

    3 July 1990

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Swiss Air Force.

    July 1998

    Placed on display with Fliegermuseum Dubendorf, Dubendorf Airport, Dubendorf, Zurich.
    View the Location Dossier

    2008


    Photographer: Andy West

    3 April 2018


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Dubendorf, Switzerland
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Military Out of Service 2018 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    Hawker Hunter In UK and Foreign Servce 1951-2007 by David J. Griffin
    Internet Sources
     Aerodata Quantum+
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
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