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    Airframe Family: Hawker Siddeley Harrier
    Latest Model:Harrier GR.3
    Last Military Serial:XV753 RAF
    Construction Number:712016
    Compressed ID:Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.3 sn XV7...
    Latest Owner or Location:Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre, Newquay Cornwall Airport / Saint Mawgan Airport, Saint Mawgan, Cornwall, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1969

    Constructed as a Harrier GR.3.

    15 August 1969

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XV753.

    By 1981

    Transferred to 1417FLT, Belize.

    By 24 September 1983

    Transferred to 233OCU, RAF Wittering.
    Noted at RAF Alconbury Air Show.

    By September 1983

    Markings Applied: M

    By 1984

    Transferred to 3SQN, RAF Gutersloh, FRG.

    By 1984

    Markings Applied: AE

    By 1986

    Transferred to 1SQN, RAF Wittering.

    By 1986

    Markings Applied: 06

    From 2 April 1986 to 25 April 1986

    Took part in Tactical Leadership Programme 3/86 at Jever Air Base, FRG.

    Transferred to 1SoTT, RAF Halton.

    New serial number assigned: 9075M RAF

    12 July 1994

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n A2691.

    12 July 1994

    To School of Flightdeck Operations (SFDO), HMS Seahawk, RNAS Culdrose, Cornwall, England.
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    By 1995

    Markings Applied: 3F

    By 1997

    Markings Applied: 3F, 4

    By 2002

    Markings Applied: 53, DD

    By 2008

    To Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Fire School, RNAS Predannack, Predannack Wollas/Ruan Major, Cornwall, England.
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    19 June 2013

    To Classic Air Force Live Museum, Newquay Cornwall Airport/Saint Mawgan Airport, Saint Mawgan, Cornwall, England.
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    19 June 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Classic Air Force Live Museum, Newquay

    19 June 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Classic Air Force Live Museum, Newquay

    17 September 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: Repaint continues - squadron markings applied

    To Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre, Newquay Cornwall Airport/Saint Mawgan Airport, Saint Mawgan, Cornwall, England.
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     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
     Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
    Peter Nicholson
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