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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hunter
    Latest Model:Hunter F.6
    Last Military Serial:IF-65 FABe
    Compressed ID:Hawker Hunter F.6 sn IF-65 FABe
    Latest Owner or Location:Chievres, Region Wallonne

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Hunter F.6.
    Licence build by Avions Fairey

    15 April 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Force Arienne Belge with s/n IF-65.

    June 1962

    Struck off Strength/Charge.
    483 Flying Hours.

    By 1974

    Placed on display.
    Pole mounted at Bevingen, a support facility to the nearby Brustum Air Base.

    By April 2002

    To Beauvechain 1st Wing Historical Center, Beauvechain AB, Beauvechain, Region Wallonne.
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    27 April 2003


    Photographer: robert roggeman
    Notes: HISTORICAL CENTER BEVEKOM.

    27 April 2003


    Photographer: robert roggeman
    Notes: HISTORICAL CENTER BEVEKOM.

    29 June 2004


    Photographer: Thomas Delvoye
    Notes: When on rebuild at Beavechain AB, Belgium

    23 September 2008

    Placed on display.
    Pole mounted on roundabout just outside Chievres Air Base.
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    Markings Applied: 7J-B

    22 March 2014


    Photographer: John Bennett
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    unreviewed imported data.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Wrecks and Relics, 1st Edition (Midland Counties, 1989, ISBN 0-904597-76-8) by Mike Bursell
    European Wrecks and Relics, 3rd Edition (July 2002, ISBN 0 907 178 92 8) by Otger van der Kooij
    Hawker Hunter In UK and Foreign Servce 1951-2007 by David J. Griffin
    Internet Sources
     Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Mike Henniger
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