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    Airframe Family: Panavia PA-200 Tornado
    Latest Model:Tornado GR.4A
    Last Military Serial:ZG711 RAF
    Construction Number:BS17/820/2659
    Compressed ID:Panavia Tornado GR.4A sn ZG711 RAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:2 SQN, RAF Marham

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Tornado GR.1A.

    7 November 1989

    First flight.

    26 April 1990

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n ZG711.

    June 1994

    Transferred to 13 SQN, RAF Marham.
    Operated with markings: E
    Grey - green overall.

    4 June 1994


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At a very wet Yeovilton photo call.

    6 June 1994


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton for 50th Anniversary of D-Day Flypast

    27 May 1995


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Tornado GR.1A of 13 Squadron at RAF Marham in 80th anniversary markings on display at the 1995 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete.

    From 12 November 1999 to 20 July 2000

    Converted to a Tornado GR.4A.
    At BAE Warton.

    By 2006

    Transferred to 2 SQN, RAF Marham.

    24 October 2006

    Written off.
    Both crew were forced to eject during a bombing run on Holbeach Range, Lincolnshire following a bird strike. The aircraft crashed onto mud flats in the Wash. The crew were rescued from the water by helicopter and taken to Kings Lynn Hospital. Neither was badly injured. The wreckage was scattered for about a mile across tidal mud flats. Wreckage to RAF Honington.
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    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
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     Ken Videan
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