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Hunter F.4 on display in Tech Wing for the Open Day on 19Jun57?.   There was some doubt as to whether this was at the 1957 Open Day.   [Resolved as 57 - click to see].   None of the 4 Hunter squadrons at Jever, 4, 93, 98 or 118 had an aircraft with a tail letter of G and the number ending in 84.   There was one aircraft which was numbered XE684 and it looks like a 6 on the main wheel fairing.   The number on the rear fuselage, partly obscured by the airman's head, looks like a W but could be an X on a curved surface?   There are no records of an F.4 starting with W and ending with 84 that was ever at Jever.   XE684 was an F4 and was on all 4 Sqns as follows: 98SSqn 29Aug55, 4Sqn 3Oct55, 118Sqn 20Dec55, 93Sqn 18Jan56, 229 OCU 22Mar57, 111 Sqn Reduced to spares, May61.   The problem with this record from David Griffin's CD on the Hawker Hunter serial numbers is that it was supposed to have been returned to 229 OCU at Chivenor about 3 months before the Open Day?   The aircraft in the photograph is a Hunter F4 as the separate engine combustion chambers confirm it to be an Avon 113 Series.   [Click to see why].   (Thanks to John Porter.)
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