|
|
Dates |
|
Event |
|
|
Constructed as a Hunter F.4. |
29 March 1955 |
|
Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WW654. |
|
|
Transferred to 5 Maintenance Unit, RAF Kemble.
Preparation for squadron service. |
From Unknown to November 1957 |
|
Transferred to 98 Squadron, RAF Jever, West Germany. |
November 1957 |
|
Transferred to 229 OCU (Operational Conversion Unit), RAF Chivenor. |
1961 |
|
Assigned to unknown location for storage. |
5 October 1961 |
|
Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n WW654. |
|
|
Converted to a Hunter GA.11.
Carried out at Hawker Aircraft Ltd Kingston-upon-Thames with the subsequent flight testing phase from Dunsfold. |
September 1962 |
|
Transferred to 738 NAS, (Navy Air Squadron), RNAS Lossiemouth.
Operated with markings: 650, LM |
From June 1963 to 1 June 1965 |
|
Transferred to Short Brothers, Belfast. |
From 1 July 1965 to November 1974 |
|
Assigned to 5 Maintenance Unit, RAF Kemble for storage.
Mothballed. |
November 1974 |
|
To Short Brothers, Belfast, for modernization. |
30 June 1975 |
|
Transferred to Fleet Requirements and Direction Unit (FRADU), RNAS Yeovilton, Somerset.
Operated with markings: 833, VL |
|
|
For many years served as lead aircraft in Blue Herons aerial display team flown by the team leader Derek Morter. |
Circa 1976 |
|
Photographer: Ken Videan
Notes: At Greenham Common. |
27 August 1978 |
|
Photographer: Peter Nicholson
Notes: Hunter GA.11 of the Fleet Requirements and Direction Unit (FRADU) based at RNAS Yeovilton on display at the 1978 RAF Mildenhall Airshow. |
1 October 1984 |
|
Photographer: Robert Nichols
Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton |
1 October 1984 |
|
Photographer: Robert Nichols |
11 February 1987 |
|
New serial number assigned: A2754 RN
The wings and front fuselage of WW654 were delivered by road to RNAS Culdrose along with the rear fuselage of GA.11 XF368. A composite airframe was assembled two months later, and following the assignment of the Fleet Air Arm maintenance serial A2754 it was refinished in extra dark sea grey and white colours. |
Circa April 1987 |
|
Transferred to School of Aircraft Handling, RNAS Culdrose.
Operated with markings: 834, DD |
March 1993 |
|
Assigned to RNAS Culdrose for storage.
In 820 Naval Air Squadron Hanger. |
15 December 1993 |
|
To Harry Pounds, Portsmouth.
Moved to Portsmouth by road on 15th December 1993. It was placed in store for the next five years. |
1998 |
|
To Peter Hague, Tangmere, West Sussex.
Aircraft restored. |
|
|
To Ford, Bognor Regis, Sussex-West, England.
WW654 was mounted on a pole and positioned close to the entrance of the former Royal Navy Air Station at Ford, in tribute to its previous life as an active airfield.It underwent a complete refinish during the summer of 2003 and remains on guard today, sporting its RNAS Culdrose composite colours.
 View the Location Dossier |
4 May 2012 |
|
Photographer: Robert Nichols
Notes: at Ford, West Sussex, at site of ex RNAS Ford |
12 February 2015 |
|
Photographer: Jon Wickenden
Notes: Hawker Hunter GA11 WW654 on display at the site of the former HMS Peregrine, Ford |
|
 | | This airframe dossier is based on
unreviewed imported data.
If you can verify the documented history or add to it with additional text and/or photos please feel free to do so by using the upload tool and the history editor. |
