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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hunter
    Latest Model:Hunter F.4
    Last Military Serial:XF311 RAF
    Construction Number:HABL-003072
    Compressed ID:Hawker Hunter F.4 sn XF311 RAF cn H...
    Latest Owner or Location:Queensland Air Museum, Caloundra, Queensland

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Hunter F.4.
    Built at Squires Gate, Blackpool, UK

    24 August 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XF311.

    From 30 March 1963 to 22 August 1967

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n A2566.
    Issued to Royal Navy HMS Condor at Arbroath as Ground Instructional Airframe.

    22 July 1967


    Photographer: eLaReF
    Notes: At HMS Condor, Arbroath, Scotland

    By 1970

    To Hawker Siddeley Aviation.

    30 January 1970

    To Singapore Air Force Technical College.
    Markings added: SAF-TECH-11

    1970

    On retirement it become a static exhibit and was transported to the island of Sentosa.

    To Aik Hong Hardware Company of Singapore.

    Circa 1989

    Singapore ADF sold the aircraft to a scrap dealer. Local aviation enthusiasts were outraged and mounted a publicity campaign, contacting the Queensland Air Museum to see if they could help. QAM stepped in and mounted a herculean effort to buy the aircraft and move them from their island home.

    7 June 1989

    To Queensland Air Museum, Caloundra, Queensland.
    View the Location Dossier

    1990


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: 1990 photo at Queensland Air Museum

    April 1992

    Repainted in RAF colours by Dieter and Manfred Hitchins.

    29 January 2017


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: At the Queensland Air Museum, Caloundra, Australia

    15 October 2024


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: XF311 showing signs of longtime outside storage at Queensland Aviation Museum, Caloundra, QLD
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