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A Hawker Hunter owned by Airborne Tactical Advantage Company (ATAC), a civilian tactical airborne training organization, crashed Wednesday on approach to Naval Base Ventura County, near Point Mugu, California. The pilot was declared dead at the scene. No one on the ground was injured. An investigation into the cause is underway.
ATAC’s website says it provides tactical airborne training for air crews in all branches of the U.S. military and is the only civilian organization approved to train the U.S. Navy’s Fighter Weapons School and the U.S. Air Force’s F-22 Raptors. The Hawker Hunter was developed as an air superiority fighter in the UK in the 1950s and became the most successful post-war British military aircraft.
