Originally Posted by
NutLoose
Picture this, 1976 AC Nutloose hard at work at St Athan (without an S) attemptimg to become the RAF's newest engineer, in the hangar we have some lovely old Hunters we train on, they been there for ages with bits loose or missing.
Easter beckons and a chance to go see the family for the first time since Swinditz ended. During the short break, Waste of Space arrive, get the Hunters airworthy and ferry them to a Waste of Space hangar to refurbish them to sell on to Lebanon.... small world isn't it.
Slightly earlier than that, 72ish I think, MCCTTS at 30MU had a Hunter in bits, cockpit for us leckies/radio techs to play with, and fuselage for the riggers. It was a right state, Plessey connectors chopped off everywhere. Any way, one day a transporter arrived and the Hunter parts were gathered up and whisked away. In its place, a complete Seahawk arrived, all in black and marked as SAH1. It came from Culdrose and was supposed to be taxiable.
The Hunter ended up somewhere in South America, Ecuador I think, not sure what happened to the Seahawk.
Edit: Memory playing tricks again, it must have been Chile or Peru, as Ecuador do not seem to have operated Hunters.