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    Airframe Family: Hawker Siddeley Harrier
    Latest Model:Harrier GR.9A
    Last Military Serial:ZG510 RAF
    Construction Number:P81
    Compressed ID:BAe Harrier GR.9A sn ZG510 RAF cn P...
    Latest Owner or Location:Cherry Point MCAS, Cherry Point, NC

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Harrier GR.7 by BAe.

    17 August 1991

    First flight.

    7 November 1991

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n ZG510.

    By April 1997

    Transferred to 4 Squadron.
    Operated with markings: 81

    Converted to a Harrier GR.9 by BAe.

    Transferred to 1 Squadron, RAF Cottesmore, Rutland.
    Operated with markings: 81

    Markings Applied: EB Y

    21 July 2003


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At RIAT Fairford.

    From 23 January 2007 to June 2007

    Deployed by 1 Squadron to Kandahar, Afghanistan in support of Operation Herrick, marking the Harrier GR.9 operational debut.

    September 2007

    Converted to a Harrier GR.9A by BAe.

    October 2011

    Withdrawn from use.
    At RAF Cottesmore, Rutland.

    November 2011

    To Cherry Point MCAS, Cherry Point, NC.
    Transferred to USMC for spare parts.
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    April 2012

    Assigned to Cherry Point MCAS, Cherry Point, NC for storage.
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     U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
    Peter Nicholson
    Ken Videan
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