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    Airframe Family: Hawker Siddeley Harrier
    Latest Model:AV-8B(+)-27-MC Harrier II Plus
    Last Military Serial:165572 USMC
    Construction Number:512086/80
    Latest Owner or Location:United States Marine Corps

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an AV-8B-8-MC by McDonnell Douglas at Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 162958.

    27 September 1999

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Marine Corps.

    January 2002

    Fuselage noted at Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Boscombe Down.

    1 January 2002

    Remanufactured as an AV-8B(+)-27-MC by McDonnell Douglas at Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.

    5 July 2002


    Photographer: Simon Wallwork
    Notes: A flight of US Marine Corps Harriers dropped in at Williams Gateway, former Williams AFB. WL-06 is Bu.Aer 165572, an AV-8B+ these days.

    New construction number, 309, assigned to the airframe.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 165572 and operated with these markings: WL-06.
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