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    Airframe Family: Hawker Siddeley Harrier
    Latest Model:Sea Harrier FRS.1
    Last Military Serial:XZ460 RN
    Construction Number:41H-912014
    Compressed ID:BAE Sea Harrier FRS.1 sn XZ460 RN c...
    Latest Owner or Location:899 NAS, RNAS Yeovilton

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Sea Harrier FRS.1 by BAE.

    10 April 1980

    First flight.

    29 May 1980

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XZ460.

    April 1981

    Transferred to 800 NAS, HMS Hermes.
    Operated with markings: 126, H

    13 April 1981


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton

    By January 1983

    Transferred to 899 NAS, RNAS Yeovilton.

    By January 1983

    Markings Applied: 710


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    By September 1988

    Markings Applied: 719

    4 September 1988


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Farnborough Air Show

    8 May 1990

    Written off.
    The aircraft flew into the sea and exploded after take-off from HMS Invincible while operating off Sardinia, The pilot was killed.
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     Robert Nichols
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