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    Airframe Family: Hawker Siddeley Harrier
    Latest Model:Harrier GR.3
    Last Military Serial:XZ991 RAF
    Construction Number:712214
    Compressed ID:Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.3 sn XZ9...
    Latest Owner or Location:Defence School of Aeronautical Engineering, RAF Cosford, Shropshire, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Harrier GR.3.

    28 November 1981

    First flight.

    3 February 1982

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XZ991.

    19 July 1982


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Harrier GR.3 of 3 Squadron awaiting clearance to join the active runway at RAF Lossiemouth in the Summer of 1982

    By 31 July 1982

    Transferred to 3 SQN, RAF Gutersloh, FRG.
    Noted at RNAS Yeovilton Air Day 1982.

    By 31 July 1982

    Markings Applied: AD

    31 July 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Air Day

    New serial number assigned: 9162M RAF

    In the inventory of Defence School of Aeronautical Engineering, RAF Cosford, Shropshire, England.
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    By 9 June 2013

    Markings Applied: 3A

    9 June 2013


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Cosford Air Show

    9 June 2013


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Cosford Airshow

    30 March 2016


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at RAF Cosford, Shropshire, England


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    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group

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    John Bennett
    Robert Nichols

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