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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hunter
    Latest Model:Hunter F.58A
    Last Military Serial:J-4149 SwiAF
    Construction Number:HABL-003002
    Compressed ID:Hawker Hunter F.58A sn J-4149 SwiAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Staffel 4. Flieger, Meirengen

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Hunter F.4.

    4 May 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XE659.

    New serial number assigned: 7785M RAF

    Converted to a Hunter F.58A.
    Converted for the Swiss Air Force.

    New serial number assigned: G-9-401 MoD
    B Serial for flight testing.

    1975

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Swiss Air Force with s/n J-4149.

    By August 1989

    Transferred to Staffel 4. Flieger, Meirengen.

    By August 1989

    Markings Applied: 149, J-4149

    25 August 1989


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Dubendorf Air Show

    May 1991


    Photographer: Jacqueline Fischer
    Notes: Payerne AFB, Switzerland

    1992

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Swiss Air Force.
    Withdrawn from use.

    1992

    Scrapped.
    Scrapped at Interlaken.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Jacqueline Fischer
    Robert Nichols
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