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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hunter
    Latest Model:Hunter F.58
    Last Military Serial:J-4073 SwiAF
    Construction Number:41H-697440
    Last Civil Registration:C-FRHU
    Compressed ID:Hawker Hunter F.58 sn J-4073 SwiAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Lortie Aviation Inc, Lac Saint-Joseph, QC

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Hunter F.58.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Swiss Air Force with s/n J-4073.

    To unknown owner with c/r C-FRHU.

    To Le Tube Airport, Istres, Provence-Alpes-Cote dAzur.
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    17 September 1959

    First flight.
    Pilot Don Lucey.

    21 October 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Swiss Air Force with s/n J-4073.
    Delivered to Emmen.

    16 December 1994

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Swiss Air Force.
    At Emmen.

    16 June 1995

    Ferry flight.
    From Emmen, Switzerland to Soesterberg, Holland.

    From 16 June 1995 to 2004

    In the inventory of KLu Luftfahrtmuseum.

    1 August 2002

    To Skyline Historical Flight, Anna Paulowna, Netherlands with new c/r G-RUUD (HAWKER HUNTER MK.58, 41H-697440).

    16 December 2003

    Civil registration, G-RUUD, cancelled.

    January 2004

    To Aeromech International Resources Ltd, Windsor, UK with new c/r G-RUUD.

    29 April 2004

    To Vastgota Veteranflygforening (VVF) with new c/r SE-DXI.

    18 June 2006


    Photographer: Pieter van t Hof/SG Woensdrecht
    Notes: Photo taken at the SANtenAns Airshow 18/06/2006.

    16 November 2007

    To Lortie Aviation Inc, Lac Saint-Joseph, QC with new c/r C-FRHU.

    14 February 2008

    Civil registration, C-FRHU, cancelled.

    28 February 2008

    To Lortie Aviation Inc, Lac Saint-Joseph, QC with new c/r C-FRHU.

    28 May 2008

    Civil registration, C-FRHU, cancelled.

    3 October 2008

    To Lortie Aviation Inc, Lac Saint-Joseph, QC with new c/r C-FRHU.

    By 2011

    Operated for French navy by Apache Aviation, Istres AB, France.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Air Forces Directory (Mach III Publishing) by Ian Carroll
    Internet Sources
     Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Swiss Hunters
    Transport Canada
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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