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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hunter
    Latest Model:Hunter F.58
    Last Military Serial:J-4072 SwiAF
    Construction Number:41H-697439
    Last Civil Registration:N331AX
    Latest Owner or Location:Hunter Aviation International Inc, Newark, DE

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Hunter F.58 by Hawker at Kingston-upon-Thames.

    4 September 1959

    First flight.
    From Dunsfold 04Sep59, Pilot: David Lockspeiser.

    2 October 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Swiss Air Force with s/n J-4072.
    Delivered to Emmen.

    Transferred to 15 Flieger Staffel.

    3 November 1994

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Swiss Air Force.
    Total Hours logged: 2694.17, landings:1768, soc at Meiringen AFB.

    17 July 1995

    Ferry flight.
    From Meiringen to Dubendorf.

    18 July 1995

    Ferry flight.
    From Dubendorf to Zweibrucken. Pilot Martin Escher.

    1995

    Transported by ground.
    By road from Zweibrucken to Sinsheim.

    1995

    To Auto und Technik Museum-Speyer, Speyer Airport, Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate.
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    25 June 1996


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Displayed at the Technik-Museum Speyer, Germany

    By July 1999

    Markings Applied: RAF c/s
    In false all-black colour scheme of 111Sqn RAF display team. No serial marked.

    17 July 1999


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    In the inventory of Old Flying Machine Company, Duxford, UK.
    Re-engined.

    2003

    Based at Hawker Hunter Aviation Ltd, RAF Scampton, Scampton, Lincolnshire/Lincs, England.
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    13 January 2003

    To Hawker Hunter Aviation Ltd, London with new c/r G-HHAB (HAWKER HUNTER MK.58, 41H-697439).

    7 September 2009

    Civil registration, G-HHAB, cancelled.

    4 November 2009

    To Hunter Aviation International Inc, Newark, DE with new c/r N331AX.

    Based at Airborne Tactical Advantage Company, Hampton/Newport News/Poquoson, Newport News, VA.
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    24 February 2011

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX331AX (HAWKER HUNTER MK.58, 41H-697439) issued.

    15 May 2012


    Photographer: Todd Royer
    Notes: On approach to NAS Point Mugu

    20 July 2015


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at NAS Fallon NV

    10 April 2018

    To TVPX Aircraft Solutions Inc Trustee, North Salt Lake, UT keeping c/r N331AX.

    28 June 2021

    To Hunter Aviation International Inc, Newark, DE keeping c/r N331AX.

    17 October 2023


    Photographer: Dan Stijovich
    Notes: Departing from MCAS Yuma


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    Print Sources
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden

    Internet Sources
    Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Swiss Hunters

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    Robert Nichols

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