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    Airframe Family: Hawker Siddeley Harrier
    Latest Model:Harrier GR.9
    Last Military Serial:ZD375 RAF
    Construction Number:P23
    Compressed ID:BAe Harrier GR.9 sn ZD375 RAF cn P2...
    Latest Owner or Location:AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Harrier GR.5 by BAe.

    10 October 1988

    First flight.

    27 October 1988

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n ZD375.

    By 9 June 1990

    Transferred to Strike Attack Operational Evaluation Unit (SAOEU).

    9 June 1990


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Harrier GR.5 of the Strike Attack Operational Evaluation Unit (SAOEU) on the flight-line at the 1990 Boscombe Down Battle of Britain 50th Anniversary Airshow.

    Converted to a Harrier GR.7 by BAe.

    By July 1996

    Transferred to 3 Squadron.

    By May 2000

    Transferred to 20 (Reserve) Squadron, RAF Wittering.
    Operated with markings: 23

    Markings Applied: 23

    21 May 2000


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Kecskemet Airshow, Hungary

    27 May 2000


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Harrier GR.7 of 20[R] Squadron at RAF Wittering on display at the RAF Mildenhall Air Fete of 2000.

    By June 2002

    Transferred to 1 Squadron, RAF Wittering.

    Converted to a Harrier GR.9 by BAe.

    By June 2007

    Transferred to 4 Squadron, RAF Cottesmore.
    Operated with markings: 23

    31 March 2010

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Air Force.
    Withdrawn from service at Cottesmore.

    April 2012

    To AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ.
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