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    Airframe Family: SEPECAT Jaguar
    Latest Model:Jaguar GR.3A
    Last Military Serial:XX723 RAF
    Construction Number:S.020
    Compressed ID:SEPECAT Jaguar GR.3A sn XX723 RAF c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Defence School of Aeronautical Engineering, RAF Cosford, Shropshire, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Jaguar GR.1.

    19 March 1974

    First flight.

    18 April 1974

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XX723.

    Transferred to Jaguar Operational Conversion Unit, RAF Lossiemouth.

    17 June 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Jaguar GR.1 of 54 Squadron in a hanger display at the 1978 RAF Waddington Airshow.

    By June 1981

    Transferred to 54SQN, RAF Coltishall.
    Operated with markings: GG

    26 June 1981


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: arriving at RAF Greenham Common IAT

    27 June 1981


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Jaguar GR.1 of 54 Squadron on display at the 1981 International Air Tattoo at RAF Greenham Common, Berkshire.

    By September 1985

    Transferred to 6SQN, RAF Coltishall.
    Operated with markings: EQ
    Noted at RAF Abingdon Airshow, 14 September 1985.

    By June 1986

    Transferred to 226 Operational Conversion Unit, RAF Lossiemouth.
    Operated with markings: 07

    1 June 1986


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at TVS Airshow, Hurn Airport, Bournemouth

    11 July 1988


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Jaguar GR.1A of 226 Operational Conversion Unit on the threshold of Runway 05 at RAF Lossiemouth in the Summer of 1988.

    2 September 1992


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Jaguar GR.1A of 16[R] Squadron but still wearing 54 Squadron tailcode when seen at RAF Lossiemouth in September 1992.

    Converted to a Jaguar GR.3A.

    14 December 2006

    Assigned to RAF Shawbury for storage.

    24 April 2007

    In the inventory of Defence School of Aeronautical Engineering, RAF Cosford, Shropshire, England.
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    30 March 2016


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at RAF Cosford, Shropshire, England
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    Robert Nichols
    Peter Nicholson
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