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The movement of 208’s aircraft following the Squadron’s disbanding as a Hunter unit in Cyprus in 1959

Dave Gill gleaned the following information from photographs and the individual aircraft histories published in “Hawker Hunter the biography of a thoroughbred” by Frances K Mason published by P Stephens
Hunter F Mk 6
Tail No  Airframe No       Came from                  After disbandment:
 A        XE579                New A/C from 19MU         Converted to FR Mk 10 and sent to 8  Squadron
           Crashed in Aden in 1961

 B        XJ714                Ex tropical trials Idris       Damaged by pipe bomb in 1958.
      Eventually converted to FR Mk 74 and sold to Singapore

 B        XE556                New  A/C  from 19MU       Converted to T Mk 66E and sold to India
                                   Replaced XJ714

 C        XE599                Ex A&AEE A/C                 Converted to FR Mk 74B and sold to Singapore

 D        XJ 694               Ex CA A/C from Dunsfold   Converted to T Mk 66E and sold to India.

 E        XF 432                                                   Converted to Mk 74B and sold to Singapore

 F         XE580                                                    Converted to FR Mk 10 and sent to 4 Squadron. Later    converted to MK 71 and sold to Chile.

G-W     XG165  CO’s A/C.  33MU                            Sent to Middleton St George Station Flight before Sqn   went  to Cyprus.   Crashed April 1958
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 G-W     XG168  CO’s A/C  New A/C from 5MU           Converted to Mk 10 and sent to 2 Squadron.

 H        XF438                 New A/C from 5MU           Converted to Mk 58A and sold to  Swiss.

 P        XF441                From 19MU                      Converted to FR Mk 74B and sold to Singapore

 R        XF436                                                    Converted to MK 58A and sold to Swiss

 S        XF428                From 5MU                        Converted to FR Mk 74B and sold to Singapore.

 T        XF460                New A/C from 5MU             Converted to FR Mk 74B and sold to Singapore.

 V        XF457                From 5MU                        Converted to FR Mk 10 and sent to 2 Squadron.
                                                                       Later converted to FGA  Mk 70A and sold to Lebanon.
 
 X        XF422                From 5MU                        Converted to FR Mk 74B and sold to Singapore.

 Y        XF426                From 5MU                        Converted to FR Mk 10 and given to Jordan.

  Z       XF458                 From 5MU                       Converted to FR Mk 10 and sent to 2 Squadron. Later  converted to FR Mk 74B and sold to Singapore.
Hunter T Mk 7
           XL565                Ex CA  A/C Rolls Royce      Sent to 1417 flight and then to 8 Squadron.