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    Airframe Family: Panavia PA-200 Tornado
    Latest Model:Tornado F.3
    Last Military Serial:ZE966 RAF
    Construction Number:AT042/800
    Compressed ID:Panavia Tornado F.3 sn ZE966 RAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:North Wales Military Aviation Services, Hawarden Airport, Bretton, Flintshire, Wales

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    Dates

    Event

    1989

    Constructed as a Tornado F.3.
    Distinction of being the 800th production Tornado and the 160th Air Defence Variant.

    27 November 1989

    First flight.

    9 January 1990

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n ZE966.

    January 1990

    Transferred to 43 Squadron, RAF Leuchars, Fife.
    Operated with markings: GF

    24 April 1990

    Participated in Exercise Elder Forest a biennial United Kingdom air defence exercise, centred on the United Kingdom air defence region, but involving aircraft from a number of NATO nations as well as the RAF.

    24 April 1990


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson

    By May 1991

    Transferred to 11 Squadron, RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire.
    Operated with markings: DZ

    27 March 2003

    Transferred to 56 (Reserve) Squadron, RAF Leuchars, Fife.
    Operated with markings: VT

    November 2007

    To Manchester Museum of Science and Industry.
    Stored at Swinton, Greater Manchester.

    March 2014

    To unknown owner.
    Stored at Wroughton, Wiltshire.

    18 February 2017

    To North Wales Military Aviation Services, Hawarden Airport, Bretton, Flintshire, Wales.
    Tornado Heritage Centre.
    View the Location Dossier

    Markings Applied: VT

    25 May 2021


    Photographer: Andrew Appleton
    Notes: Tornado F3 ZE966 at Hawarden on 25 May 2021.
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     UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
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     Andrew Appleton
    Peter Nicholson
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