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    Airframe Family: Hawker Siddeley Harrier
    Latest Model:Harrier GR.9
    Last Military Serial:ZD463 RAF
    Construction Number:P53
    Compressed ID:BAe Harrier GR.9 sn ZD463 RAF cn P5...
    Latest Owner or Location:AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Harrier GR.7 by BAe.

    8 November 1989

    First flight.

    7 December 1989

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n ZD463.

    20 July 1996


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Harrier GR.7 of 20[Reserve] Squadron at RAF Wittering on the flight-line at the 1996 Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

    28 May 1998

    Transferred to 20 (R) SQN, RAF Wittering.
    Noted at RAF Mildenhall Air Fete 98.

    By May 1998

    Markings Applied: 53

    By 20 July 2001

    Transferred to 3SQN, RAF Cottesmore,.
    Noted at Neuburg Donau AB, FRG.

    20 July 2001


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Neuburg Donau Airshow, FRG

    Converted to a Harrier GR.9 by BAe.

    10 July 2009

    Transferred to Naval Strike Wing, RAF Cottesmore.
    Noted at RNAS Yeovilton Airshow.

    10 July 2009


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Air Show arrivals day

    1 November 2010

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Air Force.

    To Cherry Point MCAS, Cherry Point, NC.
    View the Location Dossier

    By 2017

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC).

    By 2017

    To AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ.
    View the Location Dossier

    15 March 2017


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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