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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hunter
    Latest Model:Hunter T.68
    Last Military Serial:J-4205 SwiAF
    Construction Number:HABL-003206
    Last Civil Registration:G-EHLW
    Compressed ID:Hawker Hunter T.68 sn J-4205 SwiAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Stichting Hawker Hunter Foundation, Goutum, Netherlands

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    Dates

    Event

    1957

    Constructed as a Hunter F.50 by Hawker at Blackpool.

    Circa January 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Ministry of Defence with s/n G-9-62(G).
    B Serial allocated for flight testing.

    22 January 1957

    First flight.
    From Squires Gate.

    2 February 1957

    Ferry flight.
    To Kunji AB, Sweden.

    Redesignated as J34.

    2 February 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Flygvapnet with s/n 34086.

    1970

    Purchased by Hawker Siddeley.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Ministry of Defence with s/n G-9-412.
    B serial allocated for flight testing.

    Circa 1970

    Converted to a Hunter T.68.
    Converted at Dunsfold with new build front section.

    3 June 1975

    Transported by air.
    Delivered to Emmen AB, Switzerland in components for reassembly.

    9 March 1976

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Swiss Air Force with s/n J-4205.

    9 March 1976

    Transferred to Flieger Staffel 24.

    29 August 1989


    Photographer: Joop de Groot
    Notes: 1989 photo taken at Payerne, Switzerland. Photo displayed with written permission of Joop de Groot

    16 December 1994

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

    10 March 1995

    Ferry flight.
    From Emmen to Altenrhein, pilot Toni Locher.

    To Fliegermuseum Altenrhein, Switzerland with new c/r HB-RVP.

    To Fliegermuseum (Swiss Flying Museum), Altenrhein Airport, Altenrhein, Saint Gallen.
    View the Location Dossier

    Operated by Hunter Flying Group.
    Flown and maintained by group on behalf of museum.

    10 August 1995

    To Altenrhein Verein Flieger Museum, Altenrhein, Switzerland keeping c/r HB-RVP.

    17 June 2010


    Photographer: Mario Richard
    Notes: Bern LSZB

    1 April 2018


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Altenrhein, Switzerland

    30 June 2018


    Photographer: Eric Bannwarth
    Notes: At Schupfart Airfield in Germany

    1 December 2021

    To Stichting Hawker Hunter Foundation, Goutum, Netherlands with new c/r G-EHLW (HAWKER HUNTER T.MK.68, 41HR003206).
    Operated with markings: N-322
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     Civil Aircraft Register of the World by Pascal Brugier
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft Confederation Suisse
    Swiss Hunters
    Individual Contributors
     Andrew Appleton
    Terry Fletcher
    Robert Nichols
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