The following is a list of units that have used the Hawker Hunter fighter aircraft.
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Iraq received its first 16 Hunter F.6s in 1957. They were assigned to No. 6 Squadron. [1] 22 additional Hunter F.59s were ordered in 1963. [2] They were also taken up by No. 6 Squadron: starting in 1964, its original F.6s were sent back to the United Kingdom for overhauls and upgrades to a standard similar to the new aircraft. [3] That same year, 19 more Hunters were bought. With these supplementary aircraft, the Iraqis established No. 29 Squadron, as well as a Hunter operational conversion unit. [4]
As part of a defence agreement between the United Kingdom and Kuwait four FGA Mk 57 single-seaters (converted from former Belgian Mark 6 aircraft) and five T Mk 67 twin-seat trainers (converted from former British, Belgian and Dutch single-seat aircraft) were sold to Kuwait. The single-seaters were delivered between 1965 and 1966 and the two-seaters in two batches, two in 1965 and three in 1969. The single-seat aircraft were withdrawn in 1976 when they were replaced by the A-4 Skyhawk but the two-seat Hunters carried on in a training role.
Lebanon received 19 aircraft (12 from UK, 7 from Belgium). One was lost in the Six-Day War, 8 remaining are a mix of FGA.70, FGA.6 and T.66C. Three were sold as spare parts. The Last 4 active Hunters were withdrawn from service by the end of 2014.
The Peruvian Air Force received 16 Hunter F.52 in 1956 and one Hunter T.62 in 1960. They equipped the 12th Fighter Group based in Talara, near the border with Ecuador. The last Peruvian Hunters were withdrawn from service in 1980. [5]
As part of the Magic Carpet arms deal between the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, four single-seat Hunter F.6s and two Hunter T.7s were taken from RAF stocks to be sent to Saudi Arabia. For this purpose, the single-seaters were refurbished and brought up to F.60 standards. These aircraft were to be operated by contract personnel from Commonwealth countries. All six Hunters arrived in Riyadh in May 1966. [7] They then moved to Taif Air Base, and afterwards to Khamis Mushait Air Base, closer to the border with North Yemen. Although the Hunters were operational following attacks on Saudi Arabia by the Egyptian Air Force, they were not successful as interceptors as they lacked sufficient early warning. Instead, they were reportedly used for air strikes on targets inside North Yemen. According to Egyptian sources, two EAF Ilyushin Il-28s were shot down by Saudi Hunters near Sanaa in 1966. [8] One single-seat aircraft crashed in 1967, and the five remaining aircraft were donated to Jordan in 1968. [9]
Ordered in 1968 with delivery starting in 1971 and completed in 1973, the RSAF operated a total of 46 Hunters (12× FGA.74s, 26× FR.74A/Bs and 8× T.75/As, excluding one T.75A which was lost in accident before delivery) from 1971 to 1992. [10] Only 4 were preserved as museum exhibits while the remaining 21 airworthy airframes were sold to an Australian Warbird broker, Pacific Hunter Aviation Pty, in 1995. [11]
The United Arab Emirates supplied Somalia with Hunter aircraft. [12] The force probably received from 6 to 9 Hawker Hunters in 1983. In years 1985–1990 two aircraft shot down during on battles of opposition and next two loses on accidents. [13] The last Hunters destroyed or abandoned during the Somali Civil War. However four wrecks seen in Baiboa, but their current fate is unknown. [14] [15]
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