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Hawker Hunter/XF311



Serial #: XF311
Construction #: -
Civil Registration:
  None
Model: F Mk. 4
Name: None
Status: Displayed
Last info: 2003
  History:
Delivered to RAF as XF311, 1955.
- Delivered to No 5 Maintenance Unit at Kemble, Jan. 19, 1956.
- Issued to No 130 Sqn RAF, Bruggen, Germany "Coded V", May 1956-1957.
- Issued to Royal Navy HMS Condor at Arbroath as Ground Instructional Airframe, March 1963.
-- Issued airframe No A2566 with engine Number E4577.
-- Class 1 airframe - in flying condition with all mods incorporated. Engine run every two weeks and aircraft flown once a month.
-- Downgraded to Class 2 (capable of being restored to flying condition although only minimal anti-corrosion maintenance carried out). Engine number E4578, July 1967.
Hawker Siddeley Aviation, UK, 1970.
Singapore Air Force Technical College, Singapore, Jan. 31, 1970.
- Delivered as SAF­TECH­11.
Queensland Air Museum, Caloundra, Queensland, Australia, June 1989-2003.
- Displayed in RAF Colors.

Source(s):
www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk
Queensland Air Museum
Photo Source(s):
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