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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hunter
    Latest Model:Hunter T.7
    Last Military Serial:XL617 RAF
    Construction Number:41H-695449
    Last Civil Registration:N617NL
    Compressed ID:Hawker Hunter T.7 sn XL617 RAF cn 4...
    Latest Owner or Location:International Test Pilots School, London Metropolitan Airport, London, Ontario

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Hunter T.7.

    3 January 1959

    First flight.

    27 January 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XL617.
    The delivery date is provided.

    From September 1984 to 1988

    Transferred to RAF Cosford.
    Operated with markings: 89
    Served as an instructional airframe.

    New serial number assigned: 8837M RAF
    Maintenance serial assigned at Cosford.

    3 August 1986


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: At RAF Cosford, UK

    December 1988

    To Hunter Wing Ltd.

    Transported by ground.
    Trucked dismantled to Hurn.

    7 July 1989

    To Jet Heritage/Hunter Wing Ltd, Hurn with new c/r G-HHNT.

    From November 1989 to 1994

    To Northern Lights Aircraft Inc, Montgomery, AL with new c/r N617NL.

    From 31 May 1994 to 1999

    To Grace Aire Inc, Corpus Christi, TX keeping c/r N617NL.

    21 February 1997

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX617NL (HUNTER T MK 7, 41H-695449) issued.

    11 August 1999

    To Adrenalin Airsports, Boise, ID keeping c/r N617NL.

    Painted in an all glossy red scheme.

    February 2007

    To unknown owner with c/r N617NL.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Wellington, FL.

    23 July 2008

    To Michael A. Alvarez, Coral Gables, FL keeping c/r N617NL.

    23 July 2008

    To Michael A. Alverez, Coral Gables, FL keeping c/r N617NL.

    Based at Jet Warbird Training Center, Sante Fe County Municipal, Santa Fe, NM.
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    From 2012 to 2013

    To Vintage Aviation, Leesville, SC keeping c/r N617NL.

    1 May 2012

    To unknown owner with c/r N617NL.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Leesville, SC.

    29 August 2013

    Civil registration, N617NL, cancelled.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Leesville, SC.

    3 June 2019

    To Vintage Aviation Inc, Leesville, SC with new c/r N617NL.

    18 September 2019

    To Sky West Aviation Inc Trustee, Albuquerque, NM keeping c/r N617NL.

    27 January 2021


    Photographer: Mike Fuller
    Notes: Shot at RFD, Chicago Rockford Airport

    27 January 2021


    Photographer: Mike Fuller
    Notes: Shot at RFD, Chicago Rockford Airport

    Circa July 2021

    To International Test Pilots School, London Metropolitan Airport, London, ON.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
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