Keith Willshaw wrote:

"NoSpam" wrote in message
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Early last week I was surprised to see a pair of vintage jet
warbirds on short final for San Jose International Airport,
SJC, here in California. They looked looked like Hawker
Hunters, but I didn't think anyone is still flying those?


There are quite a lot in private hands, I know of at least one
owner in California.

Interesting someone brought this up, as a friend of mine who's a
controller at Oakland Center was asking me on the phone tonight
which if any military might still use Hunters, as he had a flight
of four out in one of the military restricted areas off the coast
within the last week or so. I couldn't remember if anyone still
had them in service, but if they were military the only air forces
I could think of that had them (at least at one time) and could
get them here reasonably easily would be Chile or Peru. However,
if the OP saw them going into SJC, that would tend to confirm my
guess that they were most likely privately-owned and doing
contract work for either the military or a DoD contractor, like
that outfit that flies ex-Israeli A-4s. So I'd like to second
the OP's question -- does anyone know if any military is still
using them? FAC or FAP or ?

Guy