CAA allow UK civil-registered Hunters to fly again

Possibly but I”d be interested to hear more about an ” approved” alternative source.

Thank you for the confirmation so they will be able to have live seats

Seat carts can be obtained elsewhere and shouldn’t be an issue….

Flying a Hunter without ‘live’ seats is not really an option as a high performance jet. The escape envelope means bailing out manually is the last option. The CAA insisted that jets like this and the Sea Vixen etc had ‘live’ seats as a result.
Jep Provost and similar lower performance aircraft can be escaped from easier….

I think you just have a seat costing plenty of bucks with no BANG.
Surely you can fly the hunter with dead seats?

Won’t the lack of in-date ejector seat cartridges cause problems? I believe Martin- Baker have withdrawn support.

a lot of aeroplanes to be checked

Why did the reinstatement take so long, it was clear a long time ago the basic airframe was not at fault?

Its only money David and if you have it you can run a Hunter maintenance, hangarage, fuel Insurance its all part of it

I imagine the cost of nsurance might well be a bigger issue

G-INFO says 13: https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/modalapplication.aspx?catid=1&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=summary&aircrafttype=hunter

Good news, but are there any civil registered Hunters left?

Great news, I am not a Paraffin Burner fan but do like the Hunter. Lets hope an airshow booking arrives very soon

Looks good, but I expect some will disagree.

Well it’s good news anyway.