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    Airframe Family: Hawker Siddeley Harrier
    Latest Model:Harrier GR.9A
    Last Military Serial:ZD433 RAF
    Construction Number:P45
    Compressed ID:BAe Harrier GR.9A sn ZD433 RAF cn P...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Harrier GR.5 by BAe.

    8 August 1989

    First flight.

    5 September 1989

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n ZD433.

    1990

    Converted to a Harrier GR.5A by BAe.

    1990

    Transferred to Maintenance School, RAF Wittering.

    By 1993

    Converted to a Harrier GR.7 by BAe.

    By 1993

    Transferred to 3 SQN, RAF Laarbruck, Germany.

    By 1993

    Markings Applied: AD

    By 1995

    Transferred to 20 (R) SQN, RAF Wittering.

    By 1995

    Markings Applied: D

    By 1998

    Markings Applied: 45

    27 July 2001


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Cottesmore RIAT

    16 August 2003


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Kecskemet Air Show, Hungary

    16 August 2003


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    2004

    Converted to a Harrier GR.7A by BAe.

    By 2005

    Transferred to 3 SQN, RAF Cottesmore.

    By 2005

    Markings Applied: 45A

    By 2008

    Converted to a Harrier GR.9A by BAe.
    At JUMP, RAF Cottesmore.

    By 2010

    Transferred to 1 SQN, RAF Cottesmore.

    By 2010

    Markings Applied: 45A

    15 December 2010

    Withdrawn from use.

    13 December 2011

    Delivered in error to RAF Museum, RAF Cosford.

    20 December 2011

    To Fleet Air Arm Museum-Reserve collection-Cobham-Hall, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England.
    Received from RAF Museum, Cosford.
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    24 October 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: On display at Public Open Day of the Fleet Air Arm Museum - Reserve Collection at Cobham Hall, RNAS Yeovilton in the UK

    23 October 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Cobham Hall

    23 October 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Cobham Hall

    To Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England.
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    28 September 2018


    Photographer: Mick McKean
    Notes: In the Fleet Air Arm Museum, RN Station Yeovilton.

    28 September 2018


    Photographer: Mick McKean
    Notes: In the Fleet Air Arm Museum, RN Station Yeovilton.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Military Aircraft Markings by Howard J. Curtis
    Internet Sources
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Andrew Appleton
    Terry Fletcher
    Robert Nichols
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