aircraft ID needed

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #5985458
But can anyone nail down an airframe that is US owned?

That I will have to leave to my transatlantic cousins of POTN

Box Brownie wrote in post #5985469
That I will have to leave to my transatlantic cousins of POTN

Love that paint job on "Miss D"

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #5985474
Love that paint job on "Miss D"

definitely a sportier look than the average Hunter! Pretty cool

I suppose if you have the "coin" to own and fly one yourself, you can paint the sucker any color you want...

Kinda reminds me of the story of the "Pink" P40 at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo in western Michigan. The so called experten screamed bloody murder until they found out the paint job was authentic. Seems no one had ever seen what "Desert Sand" looked like when it was freshly applied. They'd only seen photos of it after it had weathered.

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #5985481
I suppose if you have the "coin" to own and fly one yourself, you can paint the sucker any color you want...

naturally!

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #5985458
But can anyone nail down an airframe that is US owned?

i'll be out again probably tomorrow, if they're out flying I'll try to get a few more pics of em.

Think it's a Hawker Hunter F58

http://www.airliners.n​et …Hawker-Hunter-F58/1314905

casp3r wrote in post #5987208
Think it's a Hawker Hunter F58

http://www.airliners.n​et …Hawker-Hunter-F58/1314905

DING DING DING...

We have a winner...

Aircraft are registered to Hunter Aviation International and are incorporated in Delaware, USA (as are a lot of businesses...)

They do, in fact, provide "Fast Jets" for dissimilar air combat training and radar profiling.

They're essentially "Threats R Us..." Pretty Cool...

wow thats cool... so its civilian owned (well, corporate owned) then right? Why the heck do they need to profile/dissimilar train with hunters? what current potential threat (nation) has Hunters or something very similar in service?? Who did you Brits sell all your Hunters off to?? haha

I'd say from certain angles it would look like some of the earlier Migs and the Mig-19 is still in service with North Korea in the form of the Shenyang J-6

thats not a far off thought, i suppose the wing and tail shape and positioning are similar to the mig-19 and offspring... wouldn't some (ex-Warsaw Pact) new NATO members have some of the real thing sitting around available to be used for such?? or even bought outright?

this is a very interesting subject... i am not familiar with what resources are brought in for this type of training

Very cool aircraft. Nice pictures too.

http://www.airliners.n​et …ny%29&distinct_​entry=true

http://www.atacusa.com​/sections/company.html

I can only confirm that it is a British Hawker, can't confirm model.

Andrushka wrote in post #5987413
wow thats cool... so its civilian owned (well, corporate owned) then right? Why the heck do they need to profile/dissimilar train with hunters? what current potential threat (nation) has Hunters or something very similar in service?? Who did you Brits sell all your Hunters off to?? haha

They don't just rent them out for Dogfighting, they also rent them out to let military calibrate ground-based radar as well as see how a different airframe/airborne radar set reacts to jamming, etc...

According to their website, it sounds as if they can whistle up a flight of just about anything the customer wants to fight against or learn to defend against.