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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hunter
    Latest Model:Hunter PR.11
    Last Military Serial:WT723 RN
    Construction Number:41H-670690
    Last Civil Registration:G-PRII
    Compressed ID:Hawker Hunter PR.11 sn WT723 RN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Specialist Computer Centres Technology Campus, Tyseley, Birmingham, Midlands - West, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Hunter F.4.

    16 February 1955

    First flight.

    25 March 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WT723.

    25 March 1955

    Transferred to 5MU, RAF Kemble.

    Transferred to 54SQN.

    Transferred to 14SQN.

    Transferred to 229OCU.

    Circa 1962

    Converted to a Hunter GA.11.

    17 August 1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n WT723.

    17 August 1962

    Transferred to 764NAS, RNAS Lossiemouth.

    17 August 1962

    Markings Applied: 692, LM

    Converted to a Hunter PR.11.
    With nose cameras.

    1973

    Transferred to Fleet Requirements and Air Direction Unit (FRADU), RNAS Yeovilton.

    Markings Applied: 866, VL

    2 February 1983


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton

    11 March 1983


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton

    1993

    Transferred to RNAS Culdrose.
    Used as a Ground Instruction airframe for 3 years.
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    8 May 1997

    To Loren L. Florey, Minnetonka, MN with new c/r N723WT.

    8 May 1997

    Contracted to Classic Jets, Exeter for work on the airframe.

    5 September 1997

    To Loren L. Florey, Minnetonka, MN keeping c/r N723WT.

    Restored.
    Refurbished by Classic Jets.

    19 May 1999

    Civil registration, N723WT, cancelled.

    4 September 1999


    Photographer: Roger Seroo
    Notes: A messy cartridge startup of this Hunter GA.11 at Bevekom airbase prior to it is display flown by John Aldington

    To Classic Fighters with new c/r G-PRII.

    2002

    Grounded.

    2008

    Returned to airworthy condition.

    2008

    To Hunter Flying/Horizon Aircraft Services, Saint Athan Airport, Eglwys-Brewis, Wales keeping c/r G-PRII.

    28 July 2009


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Culdrose Air Show

    28 July 2009


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Culdrose Air Show

    Markings Applied: XG194/N
    1960s Black Arrows Colour scheme.

    28 July 2009


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Culdrose Air Show

    16 September 2011


    Photographer: Thomas Delvoye

    By 2014

    Markings Applied: 692, LM
    Returned to the c/s it wore when first in RN service (1962) with 764NAS at RNAS Lossiemouth.

    26 July 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Air Day

    26 July 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Air Day

    26 July 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Air Day

    26 July 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Air Day

    By September 2021

    To Specialist Computer Centres Technology Campus, Tyseley, Birmingham, Midlands-West, England.
    Plinth-mounted.
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    Robert Nichols

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