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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hunter
    Latest Model:Hunter F.5
    Last Military Serial:WP190 RAF
    Construction Number:S4/U/3041
    Compressed ID:Hawker Hunter F.5 sn WP190 RAF cn S...
    Latest Owner or Location:Tangmere Military Aviation Museum Trust, Tangmere, Sussex - West, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Hunter F.5.

    Circa 17 August 1952

    Struck off Strength/Charge.

    17 August 1952

    New serial number assigned: 7582M RAF

    21 July 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WP190.

    Transferred to 1 Squadron, RAF Tangmere.

    Participated in operations during the Suez Crisis.

    To RAF Stanbridge.
    Displayed as a gate guard at Standbridge.

    Markings Applied: WP180
    A one point was marked to represent and aircraft destroyed on the ground by EOKA terrists during the Suez Crisis.

    To Hunter Restoration Flight.

    To Raymond Hansed.

    Restored.
    Restored over five years.

    13 February 1976

    New serial number assigned: 8473M RAF

    26 November 1994

    Sold.

    5 June 2002

    To Tangmere Military Aviation Museum.
    Gifted to the Tangmere museum, but not immediately placed in storage.

    From Circa 5 June 2002 to Circa June 2002

    Placed in storage waiting for the new museum hangar to be built.

    By June 2002

    Transported by ground. Delivered to Tangmere Military Aviation Museum Trust, Tangmere, Sussex-West, England.
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    2006


    Photographer: Andy West
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Military Out of Service 2007 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    Thunder and Lightnings
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
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