Hawker Hunter - Survivor WT804
GA.11 WT804 - Privately owned, Todenham, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire
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Hunter GA.11 WT804 at Todenham, 6th December 2025; Jake Wallace
Built as an F.4, WT804 was first flown in March 1955, entering service with 247 Squadron before being placed in storage as improved marks became available. In 1961/62 she was taken out of storage and converted to GA.11 standard and assigned to the Fleet Air Arm. Serving with 738 NAS at RNAS Lossiemouth from late 1962, but by May 1963 was back in storage - at RNAY Sydenham. Moving to Kemble and 5MU in April 1965, she was back in the air the next year with 738 NAS once again based at RNAS Brawdy. With occasional spells at maintenance units for various upgrades, including fitting a Harley light in the nose, WT804 went on to join the Fleet Requirements Unit at Hurn in July 1969 and stayed on when the unit moved to Yeovilton and became FRADU.
She was retired to storage at Kemble once more in 1982, and became a ground instructional airframe. She was used as such at Shawbury and Culdrose (in taxiable condition there for use with the School of Aircraft Handling), finally being retired from active use in January 1994. By May of that year, she had been transported to the Home Office Fire & Emergency Training Centre at Moreton-in-Marsh (now the Fire Service College). The aircraft could be spotted near one of the perimeter roads of the airfield, nose into the ground due to its nose leg being retracted, perhaps to make for easier cockpit extraction training.
In 2017, WT804 was acquired by a private individual who moved it to their property a few yards down the road near Todenham. The aircraft is now sitting back level with its nose being supported by a pile of wooden planks and tires. The airframe at one point was beginning to look rather clean and tidy externally, but has since become green once again, and remains to lack a canopy and nose leg.
She was retired to storage at Kemble once more in 1982, and became a ground instructional airframe. She was used as such at Shawbury and Culdrose (in taxiable condition there for use with the School of Aircraft Handling), finally being retired from active use in January 1994. By May of that year, she had been transported to the Home Office Fire & Emergency Training Centre at Moreton-in-Marsh (now the Fire Service College). The aircraft could be spotted near one of the perimeter roads of the airfield, nose into the ground due to its nose leg being retracted, perhaps to make for easier cockpit extraction training.
In 2017, WT804 was acquired by a private individual who moved it to their property a few yards down the road near Todenham. The aircraft is now sitting back level with its nose being supported by a pile of wooden planks and tires. The airframe at one point was beginning to look rather clean and tidy externally, but has since become green once again, and remains to lack a canopy and nose leg.
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