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    Airframe Family: Hawker Siddeley Harrier
    Latest Model:Harrier GR.3
    Last Military Serial:XZ133 RAF
    Construction Number:712192
    Latest Owner or Location:Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire / Cambs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Harrier GR.3.

    4 May 1976

    First flight.

    9 July 1976

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XZ133.
    Was originally assigned s/n XY133 but not taken up.

    Transferred to 233 OCU, RAF Wittering.
    Operated with markings: 32

    Circa 1976


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: 233 OCU

    By July 1984

    Transferred to 1 SQN, RAF Wittering.
    Operated with markings: 10

    18 July 1984


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Chivenor Airshow

    16 May 1989


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Harrier GR.3 of 4 Squadron landing at RAF Lossiemouth in May 1989.

    To Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
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    27 September 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Imperial War Museum, Duxford, UK

    2 October 2018


    Photographer: Mick McKean
    Notes: In the Air and Space hangar at Duxford IWM.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Robert Nichols
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