XF375 first flew in August 1955 and served with Rolls Royce as Avon 203 engine test-bed, before going to the English Electric Company at Warton for Lightning trials work. In late 1962 she was assigned to the Empire Test Pilots School at Farnborough.
Only minutes after 2 local F-35's landed it felt like taking a step back in time when this Leeuwarden-based Dutch Hawker Hunter Foundation beauty was pictured on short final.