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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hunter
    Latest Model:Hunter T.8B
    Last Military Serial:XF995 MoD
    Construction Number:HABL-003150
    Last Civil Registration:G-BZSF
    Compressed ID:Hawker Hunter T.8B sn XF995 MoD cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Hawker Hunter Aviation Ltd, RAF Scampton

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Hunter F.4 by Hawker at Blackpool.

    5 June 1956

    First flight.

    20 July 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XF995.

    20 July 1956

    Transferred to 33 MU, RAF Lyneham.

    Transferred to 247 SQN.

    Transferred to 229 OCU,.

    1963

    Converted to a Hunter T.8B.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XF995.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XF995.

    By November 1972


    Photographer: Unknown

    By May 1980

    Transferred to 237 OCU, RAF Honington.

    Circa 1980


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Greenham Common.

    31 May 1980


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Newbury Air Festival, RAF Greenham Common

    11 July 1988


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Hunter T.8B of 12 Squadron on final approach to RAF Lossiemouth in the Summer of 1988.

    15 May 1990


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Hunter T.8B with 12 Squadron taxying to the active runway at RAF Lossiemouth in May 1990.

    11 April 1994

    New serial number assigned: 9237M RAF

    11 April 1994

    Transferred to RAF Cranwell.
    As a Ground Instruction airframe.

    From 6 February 2001 to 30 March 2007

    To Towerdrive Ltd with new c/r G-BZSF.

    30 March 2007

    To Hawker Hunter Aviation Ltd, London keeping c/r G-BZSF.

    To Hawker Hunter Aviation Ltd, RAF Scampton, Scampton, Lincolnshire/Lincs, England.
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    11 April 2007

    Civil registration, G-BZSF, cancelled.

    2007

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Ministry of Defence with s/n XF995.

    Transferred to Hawker Hunter Aviation Ltd, RAF Scampton.
    Owned, and maintained by HHA and operated on behalf of the MoD. Operates on various trials and defence simulation work.
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Thunder and Lightnings
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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