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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hunter
    Latest Model:Hunter FR.10
    Last Military Serial:853 OAF
    Construction Number:S4/U/3302
    Compressed ID:Hawker Hunter FR.10 sn 853 OAF cn S...
    Latest Owner or Location:Royal Air Force Museum, Midland, Cosford, Shropshire, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1955

    Constructed as a Hunter F.6A by Armstrong Whitworth at Baginton.

    1 February 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XF426.

    19 April 1961

    Converted to a Hunter FR.10.

    22 March 1972

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Jordanian Air Force with s/n 853.

    1987

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Omani Air Force with s/n 853.

    14 October 2003

    To RAF Museum, Grahame Park Way, Hendon, London, England.
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    2009


    Photographer: Andy West

    11 December 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Re-Located to the front of the Museum and plinth mounted on 4th October 2010

    By December 2016

    To Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford, Cosford, Shropshire, England.
    Stored, dismantled.
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    25 August 2021


    Photographer: Andrew Appleton

    To Royal Air Force Museum, Midland, Cosford, Shropshire, England.
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    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Andrew Appleton
    Mike Henniger
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