Hawker Hunter variants
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The following is a list of Variants of the Hawker Hunter
Hawker Hunter
The Hawker Hunter is a subsonic British jet aircraft developed in the 1950s. The single-seat Hunter entered service as a manoeuvrable fighter aircraft, and later operated in fighter-bomber and reconnaissance roles in numerous conflicts. Two-seat variants remained in use for training and secondary...

 fighter aircraft:

Prototypes

Hawker P.1067
Prototype, first flight 20 July 1951, three built with the first later modified as a Hunter Mk 3 for the successful World Speed Record attempts.

Hawker P.1083
Supersonic design based on the P.1067 with 50 degree wing sweep and afterburning Avon engine. Construction abandoned and the fuselage and tail were used as basis for the P.1099.

Hawker P.1101
Two-seat trainer prototype, first flight 8 July 1955, two built.

Production versions

Hunter F.1
First production version, Avon 113 engine, first flight 16 March 1953, 139 built.

Hunter F.2
Sapphire 101 engine, first flight 14 October 1953, 45 built by Armstrong Whitworth at Coventry.

Hunter Mk 3
Sometimes mistakenly called F.3, but it carried no weapons.
The first prototype fitted with afterburning
AfterBurner
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 Avon RA.7R with 9,600 lbf (42.70 kN) engine, pointed nose, airbrakes on the sides of the fuselage, and a revised windscreen. Used to set raise the world's absolute air speed record to 727.6 mph (1,171 km/h) off the English south coast on 7 September 1953, and days later to set a new 62 mi (100 km) circuit record. It was sold in 1955 and retired as an RAF ground instructional airframe. Now in the Museum at Tangmere, Sussex.

Hunter F.4
Additional bag-type fuel tanks in the wings, provision for underwing fuel tanks, Avon 115 (later Avon 121) engine, blisters under the nose for ammunition links, first flight 20 October 1954, 349 built.

Hunter F.5
F.4 with Sapphire 101 engine, 105 built by Armstrong Whitworth at Coventry

Hunter F.6
Single-seat clear-weather interceptor fighter. Powered by one 10,150 lbf (45.17 kN) Rolls-Royce Avon 203 turbojet engine, revised wing with a leading edge "dogtooth" and four hardpoints, and a follow-up tailplane on later aircraft (also rerofitted to the early production examples) to improve pitch response at high Mach number, first flight 22 January 1954, 384 built.
Hunter F.6A
Modified F.6 with brake parachute and 230 gallon inboard drop tanks, for use at RAF Brawdy, where diversion airfields were distant

Hunter T.7
Two-seat trainer built for the RAF. A side by side seating nose section replaced the single seat nose. Engine and systems as for the F.4; some were rebuilt F.4s, others were new build. The dog-tooth leading edge and follow-up tailpane mods, as on the F.6, were fitted to the T.7.
Hunter T.7A
T.7 modified with the Integrated Flight Instrumentation System (IFIS). Used by the RAF as a Blackburn Buccaneer
Blackburn Buccaneer
The Blackburn Buccaneer was a British low-level subsonic strike aircraft with nuclear weapon delivery capability serving with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force between 1962 and 1994, including service in the 1991 Gulf War...

 conversion training aircraft.

Hunter T.8
Two-seat trainer for the Royal Navy
Royal Navy
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. Fitted with an arrestor hook for use on RN airfields but otherwise similar to the T.7
Hunter T.8B
T.8 with TACAN radio-navigation system and IFIS fitted, cannon and ranging radar removed. Used by the Royal Navy as a Blackburn Buccaneer
Blackburn Buccaneer
The Blackburn Buccaneer was a British low-level subsonic strike aircraft with nuclear weapon delivery capability serving with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force between 1962 and 1994, including service in the 1991 Gulf War...

 conversion training aircraft.
Hunter T.8C
T.8 with TACAN fitted.
Hunter T.8M
T.8 fitted with the Sea Harrier's Blue Fox radar, used by the Royal Navy to train Sea Harrier pilots.

Hunter FGA.9
Single-seat ground-attack fighter version for the RAF; all were modified from F.6 airframes. Strengthened wing, 230 gallon inboard drop tanks, tail chute, increased oxygen capacity, and bobweight in pitch control circuit to increase stick force in ground attack manoeuvres.

Hunter FR.10
Single-seat reconnaissance version; all 33 were rebuilt F.6 airframes, with 3 x F95 cameras, revised instrument panel layout, brake parachute and 230 gallon inboard drop tanks. Increased oxygen as for the FGA.9, but no pitch bobweight.

Hunter GA.11
Single-seat weapons training version for the Royal Navy. Forty ex-RAF Hunter F.4s were converted into the Hunter GA.11. The GA.11 was fitted with an arrester hook and some later had a Harley light. The guns were removed.

Hunter PR.11
Single-seat reconnaissance version for the Royal Navy. The nose was as on the FR.10.

Hunter Mk 12
Two-seat test aircraft for the Royal Aircraft Establishment
Royal Aircraft Establishment
The Royal Aircraft Establishment , was a British research establishment, known by several different names during its history, that eventually came under the aegis of the UK Ministry of Defence , before finally losing its identity in mergers with other institutions.The first site was at Farnborough...

. One built, converted from an F.6 airframe..

Export versions

Hunter Mk 50
Export version of the Hunter F.4 fighter for Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

. Swedish designation J 34, 120 built.

Hunter Mk 51
Export version of the Hunter F.4 fighter for Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

, 30 built.

Hunter Mk 52
Export version of the Hunter F.4 fighter for Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

, 16 built.

Hunter T.53
Export version of the Hunter T.7 trainer for Denmark, two built.

Hunter Mk 56
Export version of the Hunter F.6 fighter for India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

, 160 built. Brake parachute added and the provision to carry 500 lb (227 kg) bombs, minor changes to the avionic systems including the removal of the UHF radio facility.

Hunter FGA.56A
Export version of the Hunter FGA.9 ground-attack fighter for India.

Hunter FGA.57
Export version of the Hunter FGA.9 ground-attack fighter for Kuwait
Kuwait
The State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab state situated in the north-east of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south at Khafji, and Iraq to the north at Basra. It lies on the north-western shore of the Persian Gulf. The name Kuwait is derived from the...

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Hunter Mk 58
Export version of the Hunter F.6 fighter for Switzerland
Switzerland
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Hunter Mk 58A
Export version of the Hunter FGA.9 ground-attack fighter for Switzerland

Hunter FGA.59
Export version of the Hunter FGA.9 ground-attack fighter for Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

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Hunter FGA.59A
18 aircraft were sold to Iraq as part of a follow-on order.

Hunter FGA.59B
Four aircraft were sold to Iraq as part of a follow-on order.

Hunter Mk 60
Export version of the Hunter F.6 fighter for Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...

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Hunter T.62
Export version of the Hunter T.7 trainer for Peru.

Hunter T.66
Two-seat training version for the Indian Air Force, powered by a Rolls-Royce Avon 200-series turbojet engine.

Hunter T.66A
A composite Hunter, built from a damaged Belgian F.6 bought back by the company, and a 2-seat nose originally built for display at the Paris Salon. Used as a demonstration aircraft, registered G-APUX. Finished in red and white, and used for promotional displays and in evaluations. Later sold to Chile as a T.72.

Hunter T.66B
Export version of the Hunter T.66 trainer for Jordan
Jordan
Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...

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Hunter T.66C
Export version of the Hunter T.66 trainer for Lebanon
Lebanon
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Hunter T.66D
12 aircraft sold to India as part of a follow-on order.

Hunter T.66E
Five aircraft sold to India as part of a follow-on order.

Hunter T.67
Export version of the Hunter T.66 trainer for Kuwait.

Hunter T.68
Export version of the Hunter T.66 trainer for Switzerland.

Hunter T.69
Export version of the Hunter T.66 trainer for Iraq.

Hunter FGA.70
Export version of the Hunter FGA.9 ground-attack fighter for Lebanon.

Hunter FGA.70A
Lebanon.

Hunter T.70
This was the unofficial designation given to two ex-RAF Hunter T.7s sold to Saudi Arabia.

Hunter FGA.71
export version of the Hunter FGA.9 ground-attack fighter for Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

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Hunter FR.71A
Export version of the Hunter FR.10 reconnaissance aircraft for Chile.

Hunter T.72
Export version of the T.66 trainer for Chile.

Hunter FGA.73
Export version of the Hunter FGA.9 ground-attack fighter for Jordan.

Hunter FGA.73A
Four aircraft sold to Jordan as part of a follow-on order.

Hunter FGA.73B
Three aircraft sold to Jordan as part of a follow-on order.

Hunter FGA.74
12× Export version of the Hunter FGA.9 ground-attack fighter for Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

, upgraded in late 1970s and re-designated as Hunter F.74S.

Hunter FR.74A
4× Export version of the Hunter FR.10 reconnaissance aircraft for Singapore, upgraded in late 1970s and re-designated as Hunter FR.74S.

Hunter FR.74B
22× aircraft delivered to Singapore as part of a follow order, upgraded in late 1970s and re-designated as Hunter FR.74S.

Hunter T.75
4× Export version of the Hunter T.66 trainer for Singapore, upgraded in late 1970s and re-designated as Hunter T.75S.

Hunter T.75A
4× aircraft delivered to Singapore as part of a follow-on order (A fifth aircraft was lost in an accident before delivery), upgraded in late 1970s and re-designated as Hunter T.75S.

Hunter FGA.76
Export version of the Hunter FGA.9 ground-attack fighter for Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi , literally Father of Gazelle, is the capital and the second largest city of the United Arab Emirates in terms of population and the largest of the seven member emirates of the United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi lies on a T-shaped island jutting into the Persian Gulf from the central western...

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Hunter FR.76A
Export version of the Hunter FR.10 reconnaissance aircraft for Abu Dhabi.

Hunter T.77
Export version of the Hunter T.7 trainer for Abu Dhabi.

Hunter FGA.78
Export version of the Hunter FGA.9 ground-attack fighter for Qatar
Qatar
Qatar , also known as the State of Qatar or locally Dawlat Qaṭar, is a sovereign Arab state, located in the Middle East, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula. Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its...

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Hunter T.79
Export version of the Hunter T.7 trainer for Qatar.

Hunter FGA.80
Ex-RAF FGA.9 ground-attack fighter sold to Kenya
Kenya
Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...

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Hunter T.81
Export version of the Hunter T.66 trainer for Kenya.
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