F58 Hawker Hunter Info needed

[DandyDon]

Our company has been contacted by an owner of 50+ former Swiss A/F F58 Hawkers. They are still being used for training purposes.

Each aircraft has 12 fuel tank cells; 4 per wing plus 4 in the fuselage.

Originally, the fuel tanks were built by FPT in the UK (now GKN Aerospace).

GKN no longer supports these old aircraft and we are having difficulty locating technical drawings or manuals.

The F58 Hawker was used throughout many NATO countries, so I suppose there is a possibility that some fuel cell inventory may still exist somewhere, but so far I've come up empty. Factory drawings and manuals are also proving to be elusive.

I was curious if any members of this Forum might have some thoughts?

Thanks-DandyDon

 

[EXSSBN2005]

They are still in active service with the Lebanese airforce, I'm not sure how helpful that is / they would be but I think that would be the first place that I would look due to it being their active warplane or maybe Indian airforce as they phased them out in 2001. I dont read arabic but here is the link to their main page and if you can find a translator you can probably track down if they have them or not موقع الجيش اللبناني على الإنترنت . if thats garbled its lebarmy.gov.lb

Hope this helps.