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    Airframe Family: Hawker Siddeley Harrier
    Latest Model:Harrier T.8
    Last Military Serial:ZB605 RN
    Construction Number:212037
    Compressed ID:BAE Harrier T.8 sn ZB605 RN cn 2120...
    Latest Owner or Location:899 Naval Air Squadron, RNAS Yeovilton

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Harrier T.4N by BAE.

    7 October 1983

    First flight.

    8 November 1983

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n ZB605.

    November 1983

    Transferred to 899 Naval Air Squadron, RNAS Yeovilton.
    Operated with markings: 718, VL

    12 July 1985


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: Landing at IAT Fairford, crew transport for Hunter.

    13 July 1985


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Fairford IAT

    20 September 1986


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Harrier T.4N of 899 Squadron at RNAS Yeovilton on display at the 1986 RAF Leuchars Airshow.

    Converted to a Harrier T.8 by BAE.

    Transferred to 899 Naval Air Squadron, RNAS Yeovilton.

    14 July 1995


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Arrivals Day for RNAS Yeovilton Air Day

    5 December 2002

    Written off.
    Suffered an engine fire during an overshoot at RAF Wittering, Cambridgeshire. The instructor pilot (Lt Cdr Martin Jack London) waited for the student to eject before he followed but was tragically killed as the aircraft was only at 40 feet and inverted. The student pilot (not named in contemporary press reports) suffered minor injuries.

    Scrapped.
    To RNAS Yeovilton Flight Safety and Accident Investigation Unit, subsequently scrapped.
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    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
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     Robert Nichols
    Ken Videan
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