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    Airframe Family: Hawker Siddeley Harrier
    Latest Model:Harrier GR.1
    Last Military Serial:XV741 RAF
    Construction Number:712004
    Compressed ID:Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.1 sn XV7...
    Latest Owner or Location:Brooklands Museum, Brooklands Airport (formerly), Weybridge, Surrey, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Harrier GR.3.

    5 August 1968

    First flight.

    16 August 1968

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XV741.

    May 1969

    Flown between London and New York to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the first transatlantic crossing by John Alcock and Arthur Brown. Time taken was 6 hours 11 minutes. It was actually a race of individuals between the Post Office Tower in London and the Empire State Building in New York.

    1980


    Photographer: Simon Wallwork
    Notes: XV741/ AA at Gutersloh 1979. This is a 3 Squadron jet. - This Harrier is the one that won that won the transatlantic air race some years ago. It took off from St.Pancras railway station in London. Now preserved with Jet Art and restored to GR.1 spec, as it was when the race took place.

    28 May 1988


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

    24 April 1991

    In the inventory of School of Flightdeck Operations (SFDO), HMS Seahawk, RNAS Culdrose, Cornwall, England.
    Instructional airframe.
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    19 February 2008

    In the inventory of HMS Sultan-Defence School of Maritime Engineering, Gosport, Hampshire, England.
    Instructional Airframe.
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    8 April 2008


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Gosport, England

    13 September 2012

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Jet Art Aviation, Thorpe Wood, Selby, Elvington Airport, York, York, England.
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    Converted to a Harrier GR.1.
    Restored to look like a Harrier GR.1.

    2 April 2019

    To Brooklands Museum, Brooklands Airport (formerly), Weybridge, Surrey, England.
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     Andrew Appleton
    John Bennett
    Peter Nicholson
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