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Squadron Leader Hedley "Hazel" Hazelton DFC (b.7 June 1915, d. 2001) was a British test pilot.

Hazelton trained as a pilot in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve before the outbreak of the Second World War. He joined No. 44 Squadron in September 1940, flying Handley Page Hampden twin-engine bombers. Hazelton later served with No. 83 Squadron, flying Avro Manchesters and Avro Lancasters. He was later chief flying instructor for the Vickers Wellington and he was a member of the inaugural class at the Empire Pilot Test School.

Hazelton left the RAF in 1947 and he was appointed as the chief test pilot of Handley Page. Notably, he carried out the flight test development of the Hastings military transport, the Victor four-jet nuclear bomber and tanker, and the Handley Page Hermes|Hermes]] and Herald airliners.

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