93 Sqn Hunter F.4 XE685 B being refuelled - Jan to May56.   Hunter F.4 XE685 B Delivered to RAF 18Jul55 to 33MU.   To Oldenburg pool then to 98 Sqn, Jever on 26Aug55.   On 17Jan56 to 93 Sqn as B, Jever.   3May56 CAT 4 damage.   [For some unexplained reason, not mentioned in 93 Sqn F540 for 3May56 (Click to see).   However, it might be Birdy Biggs aircraft which was Cat 3 on 12Apr56 that may have been regraded to Cat 4 on 4May56?   [Click to see full report.]   Re-Purchased by HSA, 1960.   Conv. to GA Mk.11.   Del 6May63, 764 Sqn FAA, Lossiemouth.   Used for air warfare instructor training and conversion flights.   Loaned to HSA in 66 and involved in practice bombing trials.   It was fitted with four practice bomb carriers under the front fuselage and one under each pylon, this would enable it to carry eight 25lb bombs.  Once the trials were over the jet was returned to Lossiemouth, again as (693/LM).   Stored Kemble late 66.   Early 67, issued to a new Unit, the Yeovilton Stn. Flt., and was given the call-sign (708/VL).   Returned to 764 Sqn FAA at Lossiemouth, for a third time, coded (694/LM) until 72.   Moved to Yeovilton joining the Air Direction Training Unit (ADTU) 73.   Coded (731/VL), but as a result of the FRU/ADTU merger it became part of the FRADU fleet as aircraft (861/VL).   It remained at Yeovilton with the FRADU, until 94 when it was retired.   Sold at auction to Barry Pover, and registered to the Lightning Flying Club as G-GAII.   Later incorporated into the Classic Jet Aircraft Company, XE685 made frequent airshow appearances between 95 and 98.   In 99 she was flown to St Mawgan and placed in store, and a year later was delivered to North Weald for its new owner where it was maintained by The Jet Centre.   Flown back to Exeter in June 2000 and placed in store by the Hunter Flying Club and again offered for sale.   During 2002, XE685 was acquired by a consortium led by two former Hunter pilots.   A restoration programme was begun to bring it back to flying condition.   Eddie McCullagh reports after a visit to Kemble Open Day 2006, that Roger Lycett-Smith, ex-98 Sqn groundcrew, showed him this Hunter that had been on 98 Sqn.   It had later gone to the Navy and been modified to a GA11.   It is now privately owned and Eddie met the owner who was equally interested to meet Eddie.   He isn't sure how much longer he can afford to fly it with the rising cost of fuel which has doubled in price since he bought the aircraft.   He told Eddie it cost about £1,000 to fill it up which Eddie suspected included drop tanks.   The aircraft has now done about 8,000 hours and is still going strong.   Eddie checked his log book when he returned home and found that all the flights he had done were in 55, the year 98 Sqn got the Hunter.   (Thanks to Maurice Parker.)