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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hunter
    Latest Model:Hunter F.6A
    Last Military Serial:XE627 RAF
    Construction Number:41H-679985
    Latest Owner or Location:Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire / Cambs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Hunter F.6A by Armstrong Whitworth at Baginton.

    20 July 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XE627.

    20 July 1956

    Transferred to 45 MU.

    Circa 1956

    Transferred to 92SQN.
    Only for two months.

    Circa 1956

    Transferred to 65SQN, RAF Duxford.

    Transferred to 1 SQN.

    Transferred to 54 SQN.

    Transferred to 229 OCU.

    November 1975

    Transferred to 1 TWU, RAF Brawdy.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to Imperial War Museum, Cambridge CB22 4QR, England.

    14 November 1986

    To Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
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    Markings Applied: T
    In the markings of 65Sqn with which it served at RAF Duxford in the late 1950s.

    10 November 2013


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Photo n at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England.

    13 September 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Duxford

    5 January 2023


    Photographer: Fred Taylor
    Notes: Still on display in Hangar 4 at Duxford, UK on 5 January 2023.
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    National Museum of the United States Air Force
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     John Bennett
    Robert Nichols
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