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F.6 IF-65 - ChiÃ¨vres (displayed), Belgium

Hunter F.6 IF-65 at ChiÃ¨vres, 27th September 2008; Roger Soupart

Delivered to 7 Squadron of the Belgian Air Force on 15th April 1958, IF-65 also served with 9 Squadron. By 1962 she was struck off charge with only 483 flying hours and spent some time in storage before being pole mounted in the mid 1960s, in front of the sports complex in the barracks at Bevingen (Brustem). By 1996 she had come back down off her pole and was in store at Kapellen for the Brussels Air Museum and during 2006 was restored by volunteers of 1 Wing Historical Centre at Beauvechain air force base, and repainted in her current scheme with the code 7J-B to represent the personal aircraft of Captain Robert "Bob" Corbeel, once 7 Squadron's Commanding Officer (though this aircraft never wore these markings in service). She has now been mounted on a roundabout near ChiÃ¨vres air force base.

Information on this page current as of 25/10/2008, last updated by Damien

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Dr. John Smith from l	Posted at 1:27am on Saturday, February 5th, 2011
For the benefit of English speakers, here is the French message, roughly translated: "Sorry, my English is very poor. I continued in French. I am a member of the museum based at Chièvres. We are sorry that the hunter is badly painted. The restorers have used both Beauvechain gray camouflage F16 AWF. The Belgian hunters were painted like their English brothers in gray and green. In addition, registration is bad in the proportions of letters and the code under the empenage is false. We have to se... read more »read more »
LELEU Daniel from Musée International de la Base Aérienne	Posted at 8:55am on Friday, March 13th, 2009
Sorry, my English is't very poor. I continue in french. Je suis membre du musée de la base de Chièvres. Nous sommes désolés que le hunter soit mal peint. Les restaurateurs de Beauvechain ont utilisés les deux gris de camouflage des F16 de la FAé. Les hunters belges étaient peints comme leurs frères anglais en gris et vert. De plus, l'immatriculation est mauvaise dans les proportions des lettres; et le code sous l'empenage est faux. Il faut y voir : I... read more »read more »

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