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    Airframe Family: Hawker Siddeley Harrier
    Latest Model:Sea Harrier FA.2
    Last Military Serial:ZA176 RN
    Construction Number:41H-912027
    Compressed ID:BAE Sea Harrier FA.2 sn ZA176 RN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Newark Air Museum, Winthorpe, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Sea Harrier FRS.1 by BAE.

    25 November 1981

    First flight.

    16 December 1981

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n ZA176.

    By January 1983

    Transferred to 801 NAS, HMS Invincible.
    Operated with markings: 001, N

    19 January 1983


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton

    By August 1986

    Transferred to 899 NAS, RNAS Yeovilton.

    By August 1986

    Markings Applied: 716

    6 August 1986


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF St Mawgan Air Show

    Converted to a Sea Harrier FA.2 by BAE.
    New construction number, 41H-912027/P6, assigned to the airframe.

    21 July 2004

    To Newark Air Museum, Winthorpe, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England.
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    26 October 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Newark Air Museum in the UK - now re-located into Hall 2 - Y on the map
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