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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hunter
    Latest Model:Hunter F.58A
    Last Military Serial:J-4104 SwiAF
    Construction Number:HABL-003115
    Last Civil Registration:G-PSST
    Compressed ID:Hawker Hunter F.58A sn J-4104 SwiAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Horizon Flight Training and Aircraft Services, Saint Athan Airport, Eglwys-Brewis, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1956

    Constructed as a Hunter F.4.

    20 April 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XF947.

    21 February 1963

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XF947.

    22 February 1963

    Transferred to RNAY Arbroath.
    As a Ground Instruction airframe.

    22 February 1963

    New serial number assigned: A2568 RN

    To Hawker Siddeley Aviation.
    Purchased for conversion and resale to Switzerland.

    Converted to a Hunter F.58A.

    To Hawker Siddeley Aviation with new c/r G-9-317.
    Issued for flight testing purposes.

    2 February 1972

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Swiss Air Force with s/n J-4104.

    12 February 1997

    To John Whaley, Personal Supersonic Transport (Heritage Aviation Developments Ltd, Mursley, Milton Keynes) with new c/r G-PSST.
    Based at Exeter Airport.

    12 February 1997

    To Heritage Aviation Developments Ltd, Harboury House, Mursley, Milton Keynes with new c/r G-PSST.

    By 2005

    Markings Applied: G-PSST
    Painted in a style to represent a space vehicle re-entering the earths atmosphere, flame at the nose, fading to smoke and outer space at the rear. The design was completed with the addition of the Whaley familys star signs on the rear fuselage and wings.


    Photographer: Unknown

    5 June 2005


    Photographer: Ray Deacon

    18 July 2011


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Fairford RIAT departure day

    13 October 2013


    Photographer: Arjun Sarup

    To Horizon Flight Training and Aircraft Services, Saint Athan Airport, Eglwys-Brewis, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Ray Deacon
    Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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