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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hunter
    Latest Model:Hunter GA.11
    Last Military Serial:WV381 RN
    Construction Number:41H-670827
    Compressed ID:Hawker Hunter GA.11 sn WV381 RN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Bounemouth Aviation Museum, Bournemouth International Airport, Bournemouth, Dorset, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Hunter GA.11.

    3 August 1955

    First flight.

    17 August 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WV381.

    28 August 1961

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n WV381.

    1 November 1972

    Crashed.

    To UKAEA Culham, Oxfordshire.
    Ground test airframe.

    2007

    Scrapped.
    Cockpit retained, sold privately, and restored.

    Markings Applied: 732

    2018

    Placed on display with The Hovercraft Museum, Lee-On-Solent.

    January 2023

    Placed on display with Bounemouth Aviation Museum, Bournemouth International Airport, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.
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    4 March 2023


    Photographer: Andrew Appleton
    Notes: The trailer-mounted cockpit of Hunter WV381 is now on display at the Bournemouth Aviation Museum.
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     United Kingdom Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee amp; Wood
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     Andrew Appleton
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