ATAC Hunter crash in Oahu, Hawaii.

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ATAC Hunter crash in Oahu, Hawaii.

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ATAC Hunter crashed in Hawaii today. Pilot ejected safely and was picked up by boat.

https://www.khon2.com/news/local-news/p ... 1656377669
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Re: ATAC Hunter crash in Oahu, Hawaii.

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tally wrote:ATAC Hunter crashed in Hawaii today. Pilot ejected safely and was picked up by boat.

https://www.khon2.com/news/local-news/p ... 1656377669
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=219404

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Video, showing the ejection:
http://www.staradvertiser.com/2018/12/1 ... -incident/


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCeB2VR-CkQ
Gepubliceerd op 12 dec. 2018
X-treme Parasail’s Mack Ladner and Dan Westphal rescued a pilot of a small military training plane in waters south of Oahu.
Hawaiian Parasail's Jamey Regelbrugge describes the crash he witnessed.
November 2024 update at FokkerNews.nl....
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https://www.asias.faa.gov/apex/f?p=100: ... ULU,N323AX
IDENTIFICATION
Date: 13-DEC-18
Time: 00:22:00Z

Regis#: N323AX

Aircraft Make: HAWKER
Aircraft Model: HNTR FMK 58
Event Type: ACCIDENT
Highest Injury: UNKNOWN
Aircraft Missing: No
Damage: SUBSTANTIAL
LOCATION
City: HONOLULU
State: HAWAII
Country: UNITED STATES
DESCRIPTION
Description: CRASHED AFTER TAKEOFF INTO THE WATER
... https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=219404 indeed got updated now...
Date: 12-DEC-2018
Time: 14:25 LT
Type: Hawker Hunter Mk 58
Owner/operator: Airborne Tactical Advantage Company (ATAC)
Registration: N323AX
C/n / msn: 41H-679995
http://www.swisshunters.info/#4101
Delivered overland to Switzerland 7th December 1971 to 13th April 1973

J-4101 Mk58A

Built by Hawker Aircraft Limited, Kingston-upon-Thames, as FMk6
Aircraft later modified with leading-edge extensions & gun-blast deflectors
Hawker Aircraft Line no:#
Forward Fuselage no:#
Centre Fuselage no: 41H-679995
First flight at Dunsfold 18Jul56, Pilot: F/O W D E Eggleton
Delivered to no 19MU (St Athan) 24Oct56, serial XG127
Served with RAF Squadrons 56(F), 63(F) & 66(F)
Converted by Hawker Siddeley Aircraft to FRMk10 1961
=19MU (St Athan)
Served with 2 Squadron RAF in Germany
After the building of the Berlin Wall, and the Cuban Missile Crisis,
all frontline aircraft were kept in combat readiness and armed.
In September 1968 the fuselage of XG127 was severely damaged in No2 Squadron's hanger 7 at Gütersloh after
accidental cannon firing by another FRMk10.
This incident led to radical changes in the handling of armed aircraft at Gütersloh.

Retired, purchased by Hawker Siddeley Aircraft (date?#) serial G-9-294
Hours logged: 1987.00
Sold to SAF 14Jan69
Converted to FMk58A at HSA Dunsfold
Delivered overland 07Dec71, assembled at Emmen
First flight as Mk58A at Emmen 12Sep72, pilot Duncan Simpson
Delivered to squadron 04Dec72
Served with SAF Squadrons: 3, 20, 11#
SAF MODIFICATIONS
Swedish MBV-2S target towing system
SAF Hours logged: 1645.47, landings:1352
Out of service 16Dec94, Meiringen AFB

Active aircraft
Flygfvapnet Museum, Såtenäs Air Base, Sweden
Painted in Swedish Air Force livery, civil serial SE-DXC
(Advancerad Flygträning, Hässl, Sweden)
Marked as Swedish AF 10/C

2004 Owned by Northern Lights Combat Air Support,
Montreal, Canada, serial C-GJMP

03Sep05 Registered as N323AX

2006 Northern Lights, based in Virginia & California

2008 Hunter Aviation International Inc, Newark, USA
Flown by ATAC (Airborne Tactical Advantage Company,
Newport News, Virginia, USA)
November 2024 update at FokkerNews.nl....
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