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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hunter
    Latest Model:Hunter F.4
    Last Military Serial:ID46 FABe
    Construction Number:AF/HCF/59
    Compressed ID:Avions-Fairey Hunter F.4 sn ID46 FA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Brussels Air Museum, Jubelpark, Etterbeek, Brussel Hoofdstedelijk Gewest

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    Dates

    Event

    1956

    Constructed as a Hunter F.4 by Avions-Fairey at Belgium.

    23 January 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Force Arienne Belge with s/n ID46.
    The delivery date is provided.

    January 1957

    Transferred to 7 Squadron, 7 Wing.
    Operated with markings: 7J-F

    13 June 1957

    Crashed.

    13 June 1957

    Struck off Strength/Charge.

    After 13 June 1957

    Transferred to Technical School, Saffraanberg.
    Sent to Saffraanberg for use as a ground instruction airframe.

    By March 1960

    To Brussels Air Museum, Jubelpark, Etterbeek, Brussel Hoofdstedelijk Gewest.
    View the Location Dossier

    1977

    Restored.
    Markings Applied: IF70
    Restored at Brustem.

    2005


    Photographer: Andy West

    14 May 2019


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: At the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History, Brussels, Belgium.

    10 March 2024


    Photographer: Gunther Debiscop
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Military Out of Service 2007 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    Hawker Hunter In UK and Foreign Servce 1951-2007 by David J. Griffin
    Internet Sources
     Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    Thunder and Lightnings
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