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    Airframe Family: Hawker Siddeley Harrier
    Latest Model:Sea Harrier FA.2
    Last Military Serial:ZD581 RN
    Construction Number:41H-912044/B38
    Compressed ID:BAE Sea Harrier FA.2 sn ZD581 RN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Fire School, RNAS Predannack, Predannack Wollas / Ruan Major, Cornwall, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Sea Harrier FRS.1 by BAE.

    14 June 1985

    First flight.

    29 August 1985

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n ZD581.

    By September 1988

    Transferred to 899 NAS, RNAS Yeovilton.

    By September 1988

    Markings Applied: 718

    4 September 1988


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Farnborough Air Show

    21 September 1991


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Sea Harrier FRS.1 of 899 Squadron in the static park at the 1991 RAF Leuchars Airshow.

    From 26 February 1996 to 12 November 1997

    Converted to a Sea Harrier FA.2 by BAE.
    Carried out at BAe Dunsfold.

    1997

    New construction number, 41H-912044/B38/P31, assigned to the airframe.

    25 April 2002

    Assigned to RAF Saint Athan for storage.

    1 September 2004

    Transported by ground.
    St Athan to Predannack.

    To Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Fire School, RNAS Predannack, Predannack Wollas/Ruan Major, Cornwall, England.
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    Markings Applied: 124


    Photographer: Rich Tregear
    Notes: 2010 photo at Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Fire School, RNAS Predannack, Predannack Wollas / Ruan Major, Cornwall.
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    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
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    Robert Nichols
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