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    Airframe Family: Hawker Siddeley Harrier
    Latest Model:Harrier GR.1
    Last Military Serial:XV798 RAF
    Construction Number:712048
    Compressed ID:Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.1 sn XV7...
    Latest Owner or Location:Hucknall Flight Test Museum, Westville, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire / Notts, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Harrier GR.1.

    18 September 1970

    First flight.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XV798.

    23 April 1971

    Crashed.
    Control lost during hover and abandoned; sideslipped into wood, Wildenrath, Germany.

    By March 1998

    To Bristol Aero Collection, Kemble Airport, Kemble, Gloucestershire, England.
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    31 October 2012

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at The Helicopter Museum, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset-North, England.
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    24 October 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Formerly part of the Bristol Aero Collection at Kemble - now noticed covered for outside storage at the International Helicopter Museum at Weston-Super-Mare

    16 September 2017


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England

    February 2020

    Placed on display with Hucknall Flight Test Museum, Westville, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire/Notts, England.
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    Terry Fletcher
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