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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hunter
    Latest Model:Hunter FGA.9
    Last Military Serial:XE601 RAE
    Construction Number:41H-679959
    Last Civil Registration:N347AX
    Compressed ID:Hawker Hunter FGA.9 sn XE601 RAE cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:South America Tactical and Airborne Consulting Corp, Wilmington, DE

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Hunter FGA.9.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XE601.

    To unknown owner with c/r G-ETPS.

    To Le Tube Airport, Istres, Provence-Alpes-Cote dAzur.
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    2 May 1956

    First flight.

    18 May 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Ministry of Defence with s/n XE601.
    Retained by Hawker for test and evaluation purposes.

    1965

    Converted to a Hunter FGA.9.

    1966

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Aircraft Establishment with s/n XE601.

    1966

    Transferred to Fast Jet Squadron, A and AEE, Boscombe Down.

    1 June 1986


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at TVS Airshow, Hurn, Bournemouth

    1 June 1986


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at TVS Airshow, Hurn, Bournemouth

    13 June 1992


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAE Boscombe Down Air Show

    29 July 1994


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: Inbound from Boscombe Down to Fairford.

    30 July 1994


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Hunter FGA.9, callsign Gauntlet 63, of the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment at Boscombe Down on the flight-line at the 1994 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

    12 July 1996


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At another wet Yeovilton photo call.

    1999

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Aircraft Establishment.

    1999

    To Boscombe Down Museum.

    From 15 September 2004 to 21 September 2009

    To Skyblue Aviation Ltd with new c/r G-ETPS.

    21 June 2005

    First post-restoration Flight.

    28 July 2009


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Culdrose Air Show

    28 July 2009


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Culdrose Air Show

    28 July 2009


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Culdrose Air Show

    From 21 September 2009 to 11 August 2010

    To Lesley Susan Williams keeping c/r G-ETPS.

    17 July 2010


    Photographer: Mario Richard
    Notes: at Fairford EGVA, later sold as N347AX

    11 August 2010

    To Southgate, Swansea keeping c/r G-ETPS.

    To FGA9 Ltd, Swansea keeping c/r G-ETPS.

    14 March 2012

    Civil registration, G-ETPS, cancelled.

    14 March 2012

    To Apache Aviation, based, Istres AB, France.
    Under Canadian ownership.
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    4 February 2020

    To South America Tactical and Airborne Consulting Corp, Wilmington, DE with new c/r N347AX.


    Photographer: Unknown


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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Thunder and Lightnings
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group

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