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    Airframe Family: Panavia PA-200 Tornado
    Latest Model:Tornado GR.1
    Last Military Serial:ZA325 RAF
    Construction Number:014/BT005/3007
    Compressed ID:Panavia Tornado GR.1 sn ZA325 RAF c...
    Latest Owner or Location:RAF Manston History Museum, RAF Manston, Woodchurch, Kent, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Tornado GR.1.

    8 September 1980

    First flight.

    13 October 1980

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n ZA325.

    By November 1982

    Transferred to Tri-National Tornado Training Unit, RAF Cottesmore.
    Operated with markings: B-03

    29 November 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Cottesmore

    8 October 2001

    Assigned to RAF Saint Athan for storage.

    13 August 2003

    Transferred to 1 SOTT, RAF Cosford.
    For Ground Instruction use.

    December 2005

    Scrapped.
    At St Athan AMF, only nose and centre section survived.

    By October 2010

    To Cassidian, Manching, Germany.
    Centre fuselage only as Ground Instruction airframe.

    To RAF Manston History Museum, RAF Manston, Woodchurch, Kent, England.
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    10 November 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Panavia Tornado GR.1, s/n ZA325

    10 November 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Panavia Tornado GR.1, s/n ZA325
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