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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hunter
    Latest Model:Hunter F.58
    Last Military Serial:J-4081 SwiAF
    Construction Number:41H-697448
    Last Civil Registration:N332AX
    Compressed ID:Hawker Hunter F.58 sn J-4081 SwiAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Airborne Tactical Advantage Company, Hampton / Newport News / Poquoson, Newport News, Virginia

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

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Swiss Air Force with s/n J-4081.

    Based at Hawker Hunter Aviation Ltd, RAF Scampton, Scampton, Lincolnshire/Lincs, England.
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    22 May 1991


    Photographer: Joop de Groot
    Notes: 1991 photo at Emmen, Switzerland. Photo displayed with wrtitten permission of Joop de Groot

    November 1994


    Photographer: Jacqueline Fischer
    Notes: Interlaken Air Force Base, Switzerland; last training course of Swiss Hunters before retirement

    From 12 October 1995 to 25 February 1998

    To RV Aviation Ltd with new c/r G-BWKB.

    From 25 February 1998 to 13 January 2003

    To Classic Aviation Ltd keeping c/r G-BWKB.

    13 January 2003

    To Hawker Hunter Aviation Ltd, London with new c/r G-HHAF (HAWKER HUNTER MK.58, 41H-697448).

    7 September 2009

    Civil registration, G-HHAF, cancelled.

    4 November 2009

    To Hunter Aviation International Inc, Newark, DE with new c/r N332AX.

    Based at Airborne Tactical Advantage Company, Hampton/Newport News/Poquoson, Newport News, VA.
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    29 October 2014

    Crashed.
    There was one fatality. The accident occurred at the Point Mugu NAS Airport (NTD) Oxnard, CA, United States while on appoach. The airframe was destroyed. The airline transport pilot was flying the single-seat turbojet airplane, which was owned and operated by a private company under contract to the United States Navy. The accident airplane was one of a flight of two airplanes that were returning to the airport to land at the conclusion of a training exercise...
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    13 February 2018

    Civil registration, N332AX, cancelled.


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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
    National Transportation Safety Board

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