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    Airframe Family: Hawker Siddeley Harrier
    Latest Model:Sea Harrier FA.2
    Last Military Serial:XZ455 RN
    Construction Number:41H-912009
    Compressed ID:BAE Sea Harrier FA.2 sn XZ455 RN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Selby, West Yorkshire

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Sea Harrier FRS.1 by BAE.

    9 October 1979

    First flight.

    8 November 1979

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XZ455.

    By November 1979

    Transferred to 700A NAS, RNAS Yeovilton.
    Operated with markings: 102, VL

    12 November 1979


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton

    By March 1980

    Transferred to 899 NAS, RNAS Yeovilton.

    By March 1980

    Markings Applied: 102, VL

    18 March 1980


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton

    5 March 1981


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: RNAS Yeovilton

    Circa May 1982

    Transferred to 801 NAS, HMS Invincible.
    Operated with markings: 000

    17 September 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton on return from Falkland Islands conflict aboard HMS Invincible

    By May 1988

    Transferred to 899 NAS, RNAS Yeovilton.
    Operated with markings: 712

    29 May 1988


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Mildenhall Air Fete

    30 May 1988


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Sea Harrier FRS.1 of 899 Squadron at RNAS Yeovilton on a visit to Carlisle in May 1988

    11 June 1988


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Schleswig-Jagel FRG

    Converted to a Sea Harrier FA.2 by BAE.

    New construction number, 41H-912009/P8, assigned to the airframe.

    By September 1994

    Transferred to 899 NAS, RNAS Yeovilton.

    By September 1994

    Markings Applied: 717

    6 September 1994


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Farborough Air Show

    13 February 1996

    Written off.

    30 July 2005

    To Everett Aero, Sproughton,.

    March 2010

    To Queensberry, West Yorkshire.

    Unknown

    To Selby, West Yorkshire.
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