Dates

Event

Constructed as a Hunter T.7.

1 January 1959

First flight.

3 February 1959

Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XL614.

By June 1974

Transferred to 237 Operational Conversion Unit, RAF Honington, Suffolk.

By September 1983

Transferred to 237 Operational Conversion Unit, RAF Lossiemouth, Grampian.
Operated with markings: O

6 September 1983

Photographer: Peter Nicholson
Notes: Hunter T.7 of 237 Operational Conversion Unit on approach to RAF Lossiemouth in the Summer of 1983

28 May 1988

Photographer: Peter Nicholson
Notes: Hunter T.7 of 237 Operational Conversion Unit in the static park of the 1988 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete.

By July 1990

Transferred to 208 Squadron, RAF Lossiemouth, Grampian.

15 July 1992

Photographer: Peter Nicholson
Notes: Hunter T.7 preparing to join Runway 05 at RAF Lossiemouth in the Summer of 1992.

11 April 1994

Transferred to RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire.
For ground instruction use.

11 April 1994

New serial number assigned: 9235M RAF

1 April 1996

To Hunter One, Augusta, NJ with new c/r N614XL.

May 1996

Transported by ship.
Exported to the USA.

31 October 1996

Certificate of airworthiness for NX614XL (HUNTER T MK 7, 41H695333) issued.

11 July 2003

Civil registration, N614XL, cancelled.

22 July 2003

Destroyed in a crash.
Written off on take-off from Wilkes-Barre Airport, Pennsylvania. The aircraft failed to gain height and crashed into some trees and exploded, killing the pilot. It was found that there was water contamination in the fuel. The owner had de-registered the airplane with the FAA, with the intent of moving it to Canada; however, he had not applied for Canadian registration.