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Hunter XE704 looks to be inbound now, 5 minutes out.

Showing as XE688 (T72) using Scampton 34 call-sign ?

Yup 688, Saw it do 2 circuits, has left now

Ooops! my bad, took it off ADSB. Would love to have been up there to see (and hear it)

Not really my bad.
It really is XE704, despite being on the military register, and being marked as, XE688.
It’s a long story…

Andy Marden wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 21, 2022 5:11 pm

Not really my bad.
It really is XE704, despite being on the military register, and being marked as, XE688.
It’s a long story…

It was XE688. Had to shrink the photo as the forum as some weird 1600px limit but I visually read 688.

No, that is not the point.
It is marked as XE688, but that is not the correct identity of this aircraft.

I'm not going to enter a debate on this yet again, but just to expand upon Andy's point, this is what we are talking about:-

XE704 Hunter F.4, Built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd at Blackpool, f/f 26.8.55, Aw/Cn 9.9.55, d/d 45 MU Kinloss 7.10.55, to 2 TAF 9.4.56, to 112 Sqn at Bruggen 10.4.56 as 'S', F/A 12.3.57 Cat.3R, to D/A 13.3.57 Cat.3R, to 112 Sqn 26.3.57, to UK/5 MU 21.5.57, to CFS Hunter Flt at Kemble 13.11.57 as 'A', to 5 MU 14.11.58 (28.11.58), declared NEA 7.10.59. Allotted as 7788M 12.11.62 for ground instruction at 1 SoTT Halton, Soc 12.7.63 Cat.5(GI). Sold to HSA as G-9-397, by road to Bitteswell 10.1.72 (TT 215.20 hrs). Ctre/Rear fuselage to T.72 for Chile No.1 (third order). Discarded single seat front fuselage in compound at Bitteswell (1.75). To Chile as T.72 J-736, d/d 15.2.74 via Sevilla - Las Palmas - Dakkar - Monrovia - Ascension - Recife - Salvador - Rio de Janeiro - Asunción - Antofagasta. Received 'Programa Águila' upgrade '89, Wfu 19.4.95, to ground instructional at Escuela de Especialidades (El Bosque), overhauled by ENAER 8.00, registered as PP-XHH '01 for Embraer, to Sao Jose dos Campos. To Hawker Hunter Aviation 9.18, f/f at Scampton 29.1.20, erroneously painted as "XE688" in the mistaken belief that Blackpool-built centre-fuselage c/ns ran in sequence.

Well, that’s a great history. I love an aircraft with an interesting past. Now I’ve got to chase it down and photograph it.