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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hunter
    Latest Model:Hunter T.8C
    Last Military Serial:XE665 RN
    Construction Number:HABL-003008
    Last Civil Registration:G-BWGM
    Compressed ID:Hawker Hunter T.8C sn XE665 RN cn H...
    Latest Owner or Location:Kemble Airport, Kemble, Gloucestershire, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Hunter F.4.

    8 May 1955

    First flight.

    23 May 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XE665.
    The delivery date is provided.

    1955

    Converted to a Hunter T.8C.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XE665.

    Transferred to Fleet Requirements Air Direction Unit (FRADU).
    Operated with markings: 876

    15 November 1984


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton

    27 July 1995

    Sold at MoD auction.

    From 15 August 1995 to 23 July 1997

    To Barry James Pover with new c/r G-BWGM.

    27 February 1996

    Delivered from RAF Shawbury to Exeter.

    From 23 July 1997 to 8 May 2000

    To Barry James Pover keeping c/r G-BWGM.

    10 May 2000

    To Barry Roy Pearson, Trustee of:, The Admirals Barge, Eaglescott Airfield, Burrington, Umberleigh keeping c/r G-BWGM.

    2009


    Photographer: Andy West

    16 March 2011

    Civil registration, G-BWGM, cancelled.

    20 November 2016


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Parked at Kemble Airfield in the UK

    Placed on display with Kemble Airport, Kemble, Gloucestershire, England.
    Adjacent to AV8 Restaurant.
    View the Location Dossier

    20 April 2018


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: parked adjacent to Airfield Restaurant at Kemble
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Nichols
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