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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hunter
    Latest Model:Hunter F.1
    Last Military Serial:WT680 RAF
    Construction Number:41H-665497
    Compressed ID:Hawker Hunter F.1 sn WT680 RAF cn 4...
    Latest Owner or Location:Anglia Motel, Fleet Hargate, Lincolnshire / Lincs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Hunter F.1.

    6 October 1954

    First flight.
    Piloted by Hugh Merewether.

    10 November 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WT680.

    November 1957

    New serial number assigned: 7533M RAF
    Ground instructional airframe with 8 SoTT at RAF Weeton.

    By 1978

    Transferred to 1429 SQN Air Training Corps, Aberporth, Dyfed, Wales.

    26 July 2004

    To Anglia Motel, Fleet Hargate, Lincolnshire/Lincs, England.
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    19 April 2015


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Fleet Hargate, Lincolnshire, England

    3 June 2016


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: By the Roadside on the A17 in Lincolnshire UK

    3 June 2016


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: By the Roadside on the A17 in Lincolnshire UK

    23 June 2023


    Photographer: Dan Brown
    Notes: WT680 looking very sad. Terrible colours, no nosewheel and she squats on some old tyres and collapsed main gear. Canopy is now very yellowed and her serial number is showing only as an outline.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Hawker Hunter In UK and Foreign Servce 1951-2007 by David J. Griffin
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     John Bennett
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