Help – Did 12 Sqn Operate Hawker Hunter F6?

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Certainly was with 12 Sqn in wrap round colour scheme

Seen here being used for BDRT at Wittering in 1986

http://www.rob.clubkawasaki.com/jas2539.jpg

Indeed a fair number of Hunters both single seat and t-birds were used by the Bucc sqn’s during 1980 as the whole fleet was grounded due to wing spar cracks. One a/c had crashed at Nellis the year before due to spar failure and one crashed a year before that at the Nordhorn range. There was a mad scramble to try and keep the aircrew as current as possible and seeing as most of the pilots had been Hunter captains in their careers, the Hunter was the obvious choice (that and the fact the Hunter was used as the Bucc trainer). Tekkies were drafted in from all sorts of flights and stations to inspect and repair the a/c. I served at both Honington and laarbruch during that period.

F6 XG209 aswell

hi all
12 Sqn was my first posting in the RAF, arrived at Lossiemouth Jan 1981. Parked at the end of the hanger was F6 XG209 in the red and white colours and the foxes head badge on the nose. Apparently grounded for good as recently overstressed. Dont recall ever seing it fly and think it dissapeared shortly after. there were a few others but I can only remember working on T7S.
Mick

cheers

Thanks, is the wrap around como correct? because on thunder and lightning xf383 is in a different colour scheme.

http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/hunter/survivorspics20.html

sorry if i’m being a pest, its just that corgi make really stupid mistakesm

I have seen pic’s of 383 with a wrap around scheme so it is correct.

Thanks, is the wrap around como correct? because on thunder and lightning xf383 is in a different colour scheme.

http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/hunter/survivorspics20.html

sorry if i’m being a pest, its just that corgi make really stupid mistakesm

Many hunters were used by the Buccaneer squadrons in 1980, They were taken out of storage and from other units. There were quite a few different coloured F6’s at Honington as well as T7’s that year.

Here is one that did operate from Honington.

http://www.airliners.net/photo/UK—Air/Hawker-Hunter-F6A/1216163/M/

Thanks:)

12 Squadron was a Bomber Squadron for most,if not all, of its existence and never operated Hunters as fighters. However they did have a few as training aircraft when they operated Buccaneers at Honington and then Lossiemouth. One of these was XF383, an F6.
Hope this helps,
Jim