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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hunter
    Latest Model:Hunter F.58
    Last Military Serial:712 RJAF
    Construction Number:41H-697394
    Last Civil Registration:G-BWKC
    Compressed ID:Hawker Hunter F.58 sn 712 RJAF cn 4...
    Latest Owner or Location:Jordan

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Hunter F.58 by Hawker at Kingston-upon-Thames.

    To King Abdullah AB, Amman (Rabbah), Jordan.
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    Markings Applied: 712

    23 February 1959

    First flight.
    At Dunsfold, pilot Hugh Merewether.

    23 March 1959

    Ferry flight.
    To Emmen.

    23 March 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Swiss Air Force with s/n J-4025.

    27 April 1959

    Transferred to Flieger Staffel 20.

    By June 1981

    Transferred to Patrouille Suisse, Emmen.

    27 June 1981


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at IAT RAF Greenham Common

    9 June 1990


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Hunter F.58 of the Patrouille Suisse display team on the flight-line at the 1990 Boscombe Down Battle of Britain 50th Anniversary Airshow.

    30 July 1994


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Hunter F.58 of the Patrouille Suisse aerobatic display team in 30 years anniversary markings on the flight-line at the 1994 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

    16 December 1994

    Withdrawn from use.
    At Emmen AFB.

    20 July 1995

    Ferry flight.
    Ferried from Emmen to RAF Fairford, pilot Rudolf Wattinger.

    22 July 1995

    To RAF Benevolent Fund.
    Presented to RAF Benevolent Fund during the RIAT at RAF Fairford.

    12 October 1995

    Ferry flight.
    Ferried from RAF Fairford to Jet Heritage/Falcon Aviation at Bournemouth Hurn.

    12 October 1995

    To Royal Jordanian Air Force Historic Flight with new c/r G-BWKC.

    Operated by RV Aviation Ltd, Hurn.

    Markings Applied: 712, E

    16 July 1997


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: 712 (G-BWKC) Hawker Hunter F.58 - Royal Jordanian Air Force Historic Flight. Arriving at Fairford for RIAT 1997.

    19 July 1997


    Photographer: C Peter Russell-Smith
    Notes: Photographed at RAF Fairford.

    29 September 1999

    Civil registration, G-BWKC, cancelled.

    1999

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Jordanian Air Force with s/n 712.

    Transferred to Royal Jordanian Air Force Historic Flight.

    By 2009

    Assigned to Jordan for storage.
    Grounded.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Air Forces Directory (Mach III Publishing) by Ian Carroll
    Internet Sources
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Swiss Hunters
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Nichols
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