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    Airframe Family: Hawker Siddeley Harrier
    Latest Model:AV-8C Harrier
    Last Military Serial:158975 USN
    Construction Number:712136
    Compressed ID:Hawker Siddeley AV-8C sn 158975 USN...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    January 1974

    Constructed as an AV-8A.

    17 January 1974

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 158975.

    January 1974

    To Marine Attack Squadron VMA-513.
    Markings added: WF-53

    By June 1975

    Markings Applied: WF-14, MARINES

    7 June 1975


    Photographer: Lindell H. Reynolds

    1982

    Converted to an AV-8C.
    To VMA-231 with LHA-4 Nassau.

    Transferred to VMA-513, LPH7 Guadalcanal.

    Transferred to LHA1 Tarawa.

    From By November 1988 to After 31 July 1990

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 7A038.

    By October 1994

    To National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    Markings Applied: WF, 158975

    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
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     Military Aircraft Serials of North America by S. Mitchell and A Eastwood
    Internet Sources
     National Naval Aviation Museum
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Steve Morrison
    Max Sabin
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