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    Airframe Family: Hawker Siddeley 1/50/60/100/200 Hawk / T-45 Goshawk
    Latest Model:Hawk T.1
    Last Military Serial:XX242 RAF
    Construction Number:312078/078
    Compressed ID:Hawker Siddeley Hawk T.1 sn XX242 R...
    Latest Owner or Location:Red Arrows, RAF Scampton

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Hawk T.1.

    2 November 1978

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XX242.

    By July 1982

    Transferred to 4 FTS, RAF Valley.
    Noted at RNAS Culdrose Air Day on 28 July 1982.

    July 1982

    Markings Applied: 242

    28 July 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Culdrose Air Day

    Markings Applied: Y

    By July 1995

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XX242.

    By July 1995

    Transferred to FRADU, RNAS Culdrose.
    (still in RAF 4 FTS markings).

    14 July 1995


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Air Day Photo-shoot

    By 2002

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XX242.

    By September 2002

    Transferred to 208 (R) SQN, 4 FTS, RAF Valley.

    By September 2002

    Markings Applied: 242

    14 September 2002


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Hawk T.1, Callsign Bacardi 1, of 208[Reserve] Squadron on display at the 2002 RAF Leuchars Airshow, Fife.

    By June 2005

    Transferred to Red Arrows, RAF Scampton.
    Noted at Zeltweg Air Show, Austria on 25 June 2005.

    25 June 2005


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Zeltweg Airshow, Austria

    17 July 2005


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Fairford RIAT

    23 July 2010


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: Landing at the 2010 Farnborough International Air Show.

    9 July 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Fairford RIAT

    17 September 2015

    Assigned to RAF Shawbury for storage.

    By September 2016

    Transferred to Red Arrows, RAF Scampton.

    8 July 2017


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Air Day

    2018

    Markings Applied: RAF 100,
    100th Anniversary of RAF markings.

    7 July 2018


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Air Day
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Military Aircraft Markings by Howard J. Curtis
    Internet Sources
     Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Nichols
    Ken Videan
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