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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hunter
    Latest Model:Hunter F.3
    Last Military Serial:WB188 RAF
    Construction Number:41H-665401
    Compressed ID:Hawker Hunter F.3 sn WB188 RAF cn 4...
    Latest Owner or Location:Tangmere Military Aviation Museum Trust, Tangmere, Sussex - West, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Hunter F.1.

    19 July 1951

    First flight.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WB188.

    Converted to a Hunter F.3.


    Photographer: Unknown

    Broke the world speed record.

    To RAF Melksham.
    Sent to Melksham for gate guard duties.

    New serial number assigned: 7154M RAF
    Reserialed while at Melksham.

    Circa 1976


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Greenham Common.

    31 July 1976


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Hunter prototype as a Hunter F.1/3 painted as the world air speed record holder of 727.6 mph in September 1953 on display at the 1976 International Air Tattoo at RAF Greenham Common.

    By 1981

    To RAF Saint Athan Historic Aircraft Collection.

    12 September 1981


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF St Athan Air Day

    1987


    Photographer: Andrew William Breeden
    Notes: at Cosford

    To Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford, Cosford, Shropshire, England.
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    By April 1994

    To Tangmere Military Aviation Museum Trust, Tangmere, Sussex-West, England.
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    2006


    Photographer: Andy West
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     European Military Out of Service 2007 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Nichols
    Peter Nicholson
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