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    Airframe Family: Hawker Siddeley Harrier
    Latest Model:Harrier T.4N
    Last Military Serial:XW268 RN
    Construction Number:212007
    Compressed ID:BAE Harrier T.4N sn XW268 RN cn 212...
    Latest Owner or Location:City of Norwich Aviation Museum, Norwich Airport, Norwich, Norfolk, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Harrier T.2.

    5 November 1970

    First flight.

    7 January 1971

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XW268.

    Converted to a Harrier T.4.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XW268.

    Converted to a Harrier T.4N by BAE.

    By July 1989

    Transferred to 899 NAS, RNAS Yeovilton.

    By July 1989

    Markings Applied: 720

    29 July 1989


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Air Show

    29 July 1989


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Air Day

    1992

    Markings Applied: 720, VL, 1942 -1992
    Special c/s to commemorate 50 years of 899 NAS.

    4 June 1994


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At a very wet photo call at Yeovilton.

    6 June 1994


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton 50th Anniversary of D-Day Flypast

    27 June 1994

    Written off.
    Suffered a heavy landing at Yeovilton, Somerset. Several tyres burst and it came to rest on the grass with the starboard outrigger collapsed. During an instrument approach the aircraft touched down too early and the main wheels became detatched. The aircraft had no obvious damage to the underside other than to the gun pod mounts which probably took the brunt of the impact. However, the reason for the withdrawal from use of XW268 was that tiny cracks in the structure were caused by the accident precluded a return to flying for such an old aircraft - was 24 years old at the time of its accident.

    1995

    Spares recovery carried out at RNAS Yeovilton.

    January 1997

    To Park Aviation Supply, Faygate, West Sussex.

    May 2008

    To City of Norwich Aviation Museum, Norwich Airport, Norwich, Norfolk, England.
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    29 August 2022


    Photographer: Andrew Appleton
    Notes: Harrier T Mk.4N XW268, fitted with the tail from another aircraft (Harrier GR Mk.9 ZG478) giving it a hybrid colour scheme.
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