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    Airframe Family: Hawker Siddeley Harrier
    Latest Model:Harrier GR.3
    Last Military Serial:XZ998 RAF
    Construction Number:712221
    Compressed ID:Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.3 sn XZ9...
    Latest Owner or Location:Flugausstellung Peter Junior, Abtei, Hermeskeil, Rhineland-Palatinate

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Harrier GR.3.

    14 April 1982

    First flight.

    11 May 1982

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XZ998.

    By July 1982

    Transferred to 233 OCU, RAF Wittering.

    By July 1982

    Markings Applied: J

    25 July 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Middle Wallop Air Show

    By 1984

    Transferred to 1417 Flight, Belize.
    Coded D.

    By 1985

    Transferred to 233 OCU, RAF Wittering.
    Coded F.

    By 1987

    Transferred to RAF Wittering.
    Coded G.

    By 1988

    Transferred to 233 OCU, RAF Wittering.
    Coded J.

    By 1989

    Transferred to 1417 Flight, Belize.
    Coded C.

    By 1990

    Transferred to RAF Wittering.
    Coded C.

    By 1993

    Assigned to RAF Saint Athan for storage.

    By 1995

    Transferred to Central Servicing Development Establishment, RAF Swanton Morley.
    As a Ground Instruction airframe.

    1995

    New serial number assigned: 9161M RAF

    By September 2002

    To Flugausstellung Peter Junior, Abtei, Hermeskeil, Rhineland-Palatinate.
    View the Location Dossier

    2008


    Photographer: Andy West

    25 April 2022


    Photographer: John Yates
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Military Out of Service 2007 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    Military Aircraft Markings by Howard J. Curtis
    Internet Sources
     Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Nichols
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