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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hunter
    Latest Model:Hunter F.58
    Last Military Serial:J-4006 SwiAF
    Construction Number:41H-679902
    Last Civil Registration:N334AX
    Latest Owner or Location:Hunter Aviation International Inc, Newark, DE

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    Dates

    Event

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

    29 December 1955

    First flight.
    Pilot: Duncan Simpson.

    11 January 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XE527.

    11 January 1956

    Transferred to 19 MU, RAF Saint Athan.

    1957

    Converted to a Hunter F.58 by Hawker at Kingston-upon-Thames.

    26 July 1958

    First post-reassembly Flight.
    Post conversion flight, pilot, Duncan Simpson.

    2 October 1958

    Ferry flight.
    Delivered to Emmen AB, Switzerland.

    October 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Swiss Air Force with s/n J-4006.
    Many online sources quote an incorrect c/n of 41H/679904 for this aircraft. That c/n belonged to J-4005.

    Transferred to Served with Flieger Staffel 15 and 20.

    16 December 1994

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Swiss Air Force.
    At Emmen AFB.

    12 June 1995

    Ferry flight.
    From Emmen to RAF Lyneham UK, pilot Hanspeter Suter.

    Circa 1995

    Transported by air.
    RAF Lyneham to Canada by Canadian Air Force C-130 Hercules.

    Circa 1995

    To Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Mount Hope, ON.
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    15 February 1996


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed in the new museum at the Canadian Warplane Heritage at Mount Hope, Ontario.

    2004

    Loaned to Northern Lights Hawker Hunter Demonstration Team.

    26 March 2010

    To Hunter Aviation International Inc, Newark, DE with new c/r N334AX (HAWKER HUNTER MK.58, 41H-679904).

    Circa 26 March 2010

    Operated by Airborne Tactical Advantage Company, Newport News, VA.

    Based at Port Newark Helistop (0NJ8), Newark, NJ.
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    14 May 2011


    Photographer: Robert Abbott
    Notes: Phots were taken at the Langley AFB Air Show in Hampton Virginia on 5-14-2011

    14 September 2012


    Photographer: RedRipper 24
    Notes: At NAS Oceana, VA (KNTU) - Apollo Soucek Field

    16 November 2017

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX334AX (HAWKER HUNTER MK.58, 41H-679904) issued.

    10 April 2018

    To TVPX Aircraft Solutions Inc Trustee, North Salt Lake, UT keeping c/r N334AX.

    28 June 2021

    To Hunter Aviation International Inc, Newark, DE keeping c/r N334AX.

    17 October 2023


    Photographer: Dan Stijovich
    Notes: Departing MCAS Yuma
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     World Military Out of Service 2008 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Swiss Hunters
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee amp; Wood
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
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