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    Airframe Family: Hawker Siddeley Harrier
    Latest Model:XV-6A Kestrel
    Last Military Serial:64-18264 US
    Compressed ID:Hawker Siddeley XV-6A sn 64-18264 U...
    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 Kestrel FGA.1 by Hawker Siddeley at Dunsfold.

    8 August 1964

    First flight.

    17 September 1964

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XS690.

    17 September 1964

    Transferred to Tripartite Evaluation Squadron (TES), West Raynham, England.

    19 February 1966

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 64-18264 as a XV-6A.

    19 February 1966

    Transferred to Ewards AFB, CA.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    By August 1986

    To United States Army Aviation Museum, Storage, Guthrie AHP, Enterprise, AL.
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    14 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: In the Army Aviation Museum storage yard

    14 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: In the Army Aviation Museum storage yard

    November 2012

    Loaned to Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    12 November 2012


    Photographer: Chris Kennedy
    Notes: Now at Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ.

    23 April 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ, USA.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     1000 Aircraft Photos (Aeroplane Photo Supply) by Ron Dupas and Johan Visschedijk
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Chris Kennedy
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