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    Airframe Family: Hawker Siddeley Harrier
    Latest Model:Harrier T.4
    Last Military Serial:XZ145 RAF
    Construction Number:212026
    Compressed ID:Hawker Siddeley Harrier T.4 sn XZ14...
    Latest Owner or Location:Western Museum of Flight, Torrance Municipal Airport - Zamperini Field, Los Angeles, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1975

    Constructed as a Harrier T.4.

    20 January 1976

    First flight.

    8 March 1976

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XZ145.

    By 1982

    Transferred to RAF Germany.

    By 1984

    Transferred to 3SQN, RAF Gutersloh, FRG.

    By 1984

    Markings Applied: AT

    By 1986

    Transferred to 233ocu, RAF Wittering.
    Noted at RAF St Mawgan Airshow 1987-08-05.

    By 1986

    Markings Applied: T

    By 1995

    Transferred to HOCU, 20 (R) SQN, RAF Wittering.

    16 August 1995

    Assigned to RAF Shawbury for storage.

    29 May 1997

    Transported by ground.
    RAF Shawbury to RNAS Culdrose.

    By May 1997

    To School of Flightdeck Operations (SFDO), HMS Seahawk, RNAS Culdrose, Cornwall, England.
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    29 May 1997

    New serial number assigned: A2610 RN

    29 May 1997

    Markings Applied: T

    By February 2002

    Markings Applied: 45, 45, DD
    Standard RAF wrap-round camouflage, white 45 on nose and tail, DD on tail.

    17 July 2002


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Culdrose Air Day

    17 July 2002


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Culdrose Air Day

    11 September 2007

    To Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Fire School, RNAS Predannack, Predannack Wollas/Ruan Major, Cornwall, England.
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    12 September 2010


    Photographer: Rich Tregear
    Notes: 2010 photo at Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Fire School, RNAS Predannack, Predannack Wollas / Ruan Major, Cornwall.

    October 2012

    To Sproughton.

    28 February 2013

    To Everrett Aero, Bentwaters.

    19 January 2015


    Photographer: Bob Peitzman
    Notes: Taken at the Western Museum of Flight at Zamperini Field, Torrance, CA, USA

    To Western Museum of Flight, Torrance Municipal Airport-Zamperini Field, Los Angeles, CA.
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    Markings Applied: 723
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Military Aircraft Markings by Howard J. Curtis
    Internet Sources
     U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Nichols
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