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WW654 - Privately owned (gate guard at former RNAS Ford), Ford, West Sussex

Hunter GA.11 WW654 at Ford, 28th December 2002; author

An ex-FRADU GA.11, WW654 belongs to the owner of what was once RNAS Ford and has now been pole-mounted near the entrance to the former station (follow the road from Arundel to Ford and keep on going out of the village). WW654 looks to be in pretty decent nick and was cleaned and given a new canopy before going on display, though sadly wasn't repainted - having spent a few years up on this pole in all weathers it was looking even worse but was happily repainted in 2003. WW654 was for some time resident in Harry Pounds' scrapyard in Portsmouth, so has survived a less than ideal retirement fairly well.

Information on this page current as of 03/08/2014

Find other photos of WW654 on the following sites:

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

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David Allen from Croydon, Surrey, UK.	Posted at 8:02pm on Tuesday, September 8th, 2020
Been past several times when on holiday, often wondered why it was on a post on a country rd, so stopped and snapped a few pics, so decided to Google it. Pity it’s looking rather neglected perhaps a person with a few bob could splash out and have a paint job done on it to or get it to a museum ( Tangmere?) or Hendon. I did Hear the Hunter that broke the sound barrier when I was just a lad on holiday in Littlehampton but didn’t see it , but have been to Tangmere to see it in the flesh.
John Bransgrove from Tangmere, West Sussex	Posted at 10:56am on Friday, May 8th, 2020
I regularly go past WW654 and it's looking pretty shabby and sun bleached. It's a real shame. Any more information and history would be good please as I would like to build a jet turbine powered flying model of it although time is at a premium so unlikely to achieve that. Thanks, John

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