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    Airframe Family: Hawker Siddeley Harrier
    Latest Model:Harrier GR.3
    Last Military Serial:XV744 RAF
    Construction Number:712007
    Compressed ID:Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.3 sn XV7...
    Latest Owner or Location:Tangmere Military Aviation Museum Trust, Tangmere, Sussex - West, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Harrier GR.1.

    5 March 1969

    First flight.

    9 April 1969

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XV744.

    16 September 1972


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Harrier GR.1 of the Harrier Operational Conversion Unit which performed at the 1972 RAF Leuchars Airshow.

    October 1974

    Converted to a Harrier GR.3.

    By 1983

    Transferred to 233 Operational Conversion Unit, RAF Wittering.

    New serial number assigned: 9167M RAF

    28 May 1988


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Harrier GR.3 of 233 Operational Conversion Unit at RAF Wittering on display at the 1988 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete.

    28 April 1990


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At the Waddington photocall.

    April 1993

    Transferred to Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, Oxfordshire.

    14 March 2013

    To Tangmere Military Aviation Museum Trust, Tangmere, Sussex-West, England.
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