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Old 15th Dec 2009, 00:48
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The Hunter that you saw in SA would be XE653, which Keith Hartley delivered from Exeter to Cape Town in the mid nineties.

It was an original 111 Squadron machine; after a long career at Chivenor and Brawdy it was retired to Scampton as a GI airframe. While at Scampton it was repainted gloss black, and it was still in those colours when it was sold to Thunder City. I believe that it was resprayed yellow for a TV advertising campaign.

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