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    Airframe Family: Hawker Siddeley Harrier
    Latest Model:Sea Harrier FA.2
    Last Military Serial:ZA175 RN
    Construction Number:41H-912026
    Compressed ID:BAE Sea Harrier FA.2 sn ZA175 RN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum, Flixton, Suffolk, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Sea Harrier FRS.1 by BAE.

    28 October 1981

    First flight.

    7 December 1981

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n ZA175.

    Circa May 1982

    Transferred to 801 NAS, HMS Invincible.
    Operated with markings: 004

    17 September 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton on return from Falkland Islands conflict aboard HMS Invincible

    By September 1988

    Transferred to 899nas, RNAS Yeovilton.

    By September 1988

    Markings Applied: 713

    4 September 1988


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Farnborough Air Show

    23 May 1992


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Sea Harrier FRS.1 of 899 Squadron on display at the 1992 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete.

    Converted to a Sea Harrier FA.2 by BAE.

    27 July 2004

    Placed on display with Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum, Flixton, Suffolk, England.
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    20 July 2014


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Flixton, Suffolk, UK
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