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    Airframe Family: Hawker Siddeley Harrier
    Latest Model:AV-8C Harrier
    Last Military Serial:159241 USN
    Construction Number:712150/72
    Compressed ID:Hawker Siddeley AV-8C sn 159241 USN...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Harrier 50.

    Redesignated as AV-8A.

    28 August 1974

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 159241.

    From October 1976 to April 1977

    Transferred to VMA-231, USS Franklin D. Roosevelt.
    Operated with markings: NM, 602

    By September 1982

    Transferred to VMA-231, MCAS Cherry Point, NC.
    Operated with markings: 03, CG

    24 September 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton

    June 1983

    Converted to an AV-8C.

    Transferred to VMA-513, MCAS Yuma, AZ.
    Operated with markings: 14, WF

    29 January 1986

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 7A0009.

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    23 April 1990

    Loaned to Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    Circa 1996


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Pima museum, Arizona.

    16 October 2000


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ.

    By 9 September 2011

    Markings Applied: 14, MARINES, 159241, WF, 14

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    July 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    July 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    23 April 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: At the Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ, USA.
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     National Naval Aviation Museum
    The AMARC Experience
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Johnny Comstedt
    Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
    Peter Nicholson
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