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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hunter
    Latest Model:Hunter T.7
    Last Military Serial:XL621 RAF
    Construction Number:41H-695454
    Last Civil Registration:G-BNCX
    Compressed ID:Hawker Hunter T.7 sn XL621 RAF cn 4...
    Latest Owner or Location:Dunsfold Aerodrome, Dunsfold Park Airfield, Dunsfold, Surrey, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Hunter T.7.

    1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XL621.

    Transferred to No 5 MU.

    July 1959

    Transferred to Gutersloh Station Flight.
    Operated with markings: C

    April 1961

    Transferred to Jever Station Flight.

    From 4 January 1966 to June 1970

    Transferred to 4 SQN,.
    Operated with markings: L

    1972

    Transferred to No 4 FTS, RAF Valley.
    Operated with markings: 81

    By September 1983

    Transferred to 237 OCU,.
    Noted at RAF Wattisham on 27 September 1983.

    By 1984

    Transferred to RAE Bedford.

    2 August 1984


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: arriving at RNAS Yeovilton Airshow

    To Bournemouth.

    To Lovaux/FLS Aerospace Ltd, Hurn with new c/r G-BNCX.
    There was a planned restoration to flying condition, but this did not happen. Lovaux was bought out and the airframe was sold.

    9 January 1987

    To FLS Aerospace (Lovaux) Ltd, Bournemouth International, Airport, Christchurch, Dorset keeping c/r G-BNCX.

    1 March 1993

    Civil registration, G-BNCX, cancelled.

    Circa 1998


    Photographer: Jon Wickenden
    Notes: Hawker Hunter T.7 XL621 / G-BNCX preserved at the Brooklands Museum, seen in 1998

    To John Hallett, Brooklands.
    Placed on display.

    Loaned to Brooklands Museum, Brooklands Airport, Weybridge, Surrey, England.

    To Neil Hallet.
    When Mr. Hallett passed away, ownership transferred to his son, Neil.

    To Dunsfold Aerodrome, Dunsfold Park Airfield, Dunsfold, Surrey, England.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Hawker Hunter In UK and Foreign Servce 1951-2007 by David J. Griffin
    Wrecks and Relics
    Internet Sources
     Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    Thunder and Lightnings
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Andrew Appleton
    Robert Nichols
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