Hawker Hunter

Survivor WT651

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F.1 WT651 - Newark Air Museum, Winthorpe, Nottinghamshire

Hunter F.1 WT651 at Newark Air Museum, 27th September 2014; Damien Burke

Hunter F.1 WT651 at Newark Air Museum, 24th January 1999; Damien Burke

First flown on 23rd September 1954, WT651 entered service with 222(F) Squadron at RAF Leuchars in October 1954 but I have no details of any further history - it's likely her service life was a short one however and she ended up as a gate guard at RAF Credenhill. She has spent some years now at the Newark Air Museum and has gone through a number of variations of her paint scheme before finally ending up in correct 222(F) Squadron colours during 2005. Now that she's permanently undercover she will hopefully look this good for a long time to come!

Information on this page current as of 11/11/2014

Find other photos of WT651 on the following sites:

Air-Britain - Airliners.net - Airplane-Pictures.net - flickr.com - WorldAirPics.com - JetPhotos.net - PlanePictures.net

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Chris Adnitt from Rugby

Posted at 10:32am on Thursday, August 19th, 2010

Hello. I can confirm that Hawker Hunter WT651 was actually a gate guardian at HQ No.8 Group (Royal Observer Corps) for a few years up until 1991 when the Royal Observer Corps was stood down. I was the Admin Officer as well as an Observer in the Corps at the time it's volunteer force was stood down. I hope this assists with the history of this plane - great to see it's still around and being looked after.

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