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    Airframe Family: Hawker Siddeley Harrier
    Latest Model:AV-8A Harrier
    Last Military Serial:159239 USN
    Construction Number:712148/70
    Compressed ID:Hawker Siddeley AV-8A sn 159239 USN...
    Latest Owner or Location:San Diego Air and Space Museum, Gillespie Field Annex, Gillespie Field, San Diego, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an AV-8A.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 159239.

    Circa 1976


    Photographer: Barry Gamblin
    Notes: Circa 1976. Landing Iwakuni, Japan or Rockhampton, Australia.

    From October 1976 to April 1977

    Transferred to VMA-231, USS Franklin D. Roosevelt.
    Operated with markings: NM, 600

    16 April 1986

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 7A0016.

    To NASA Ames.
    Used for spares recovery.

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    By September 1997

    Loaned to San Diego Air and Space Museum, Gillespie Field Annex, Gillespie Field, San Diego, CA.
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    27 February 2009


    Photographer: Bill Kistler

    1 June 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Exhibited in the Static Park of the 2013 Wings Over Gillespie Airshow in San Diego, California

    1 June 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At the 2013 Wings Over Gillespie Airshow, San Diego, California.
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