Originally Posted by
nipva
I think that you will find that HHA's XF995 briefly served as a T8C with the Buccaneer OCU at Honington but this would appear to be the only T8 ever to see any form of RAF service.
WV322 was also a T8C in RAF service.
Aerial Visuals - Airframe Dossier - Hawker Hunter T.8, s/n WV322 RN, c/n 41H-670792, c/r G-BZSE
It always confused me seeing images of RAF T.7s with tail hooks. I was reading
Flight Craft 16: The Hawker Hunter in British Service by Martin Derry and Neil Robinson recently and that book suggests some T.7s ended up with T.8 tails.The book seems to suggest that during maintenance the tails of the two types were sometimes swapped about hence some T.8s without hooks and vice versa?
Would that be the case?
For example WV318 images showing with and without tail hook.
https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/registration/WV318
XL568 with tail hook
https://www.aviationphotocompany.com...C6DB#h3dc5c6db