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To: george76

What was a Hawker Hunter—a Korean War-era jet fighter—doing in the skies over California in 2025?


13 posted on 07/25/2025 6:27:31 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

https://www.flightaware.com/resources/registration/N348AX

One Andre Lotrain. A 1959 Hawker Hunter.


17 posted on 07/25/2025 6:42:19 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: Fiji Hill

Let’s hope they weren’t going to an airshow.


20 posted on 07/25/2025 6:54:36 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Fiji Hill

See post 11.


21 posted on 07/25/2025 6:57:27 PM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: Fiji Hill

A good question.


23 posted on 07/25/2025 7:00:21 PM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: Fiji Hill

The Hawker Hunter was a British Made Jet Trainer used to transition pilots to high performance fighter jets. It was a good aircraft. Today it is used by the “Red Arrows” the RAF acrobatic team. They will perform a magnificent airshow I have seen often while living in the UK.


25 posted on 07/25/2025 7:26:53 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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To: Fiji Hill

Time traveling. It just appeared after going through a time portal.


36 posted on 07/25/2025 8:00:59 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: Fiji Hill

The airplane is owned by ATAC.

ATAC is a support outfit owned by Textron that flies out of inventory military aircraft in a variety of roles.

https://www.atacusa.com/

Government contracts with them...saves $$$ over using current inventory/active duty mil pilots.

Similar to this company headed by young Jared Isaacman, who was Trump’s first pick for NASA administrator...

https://www.draken.aero/


44 posted on 07/25/2025 9:58:30 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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