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    Airframe Family: Hawker Siddeley Harrier
    Latest Model:Sea Harrier FRS.1
    Last Military Serial:XZ498 RN
    Construction Number:41H-912022
    Compressed ID:BAE Sea Harrier FRS.1 sn XZ498 RN c...
    Latest Owner or Location:801 NAS, HMS Ark Royal

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Sea Harrier FRS.1 by BAE.

    26 March 1981

    First flight.

    13 May 1981

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XZ498.

    March 1982

    Transferred to 801 NAS, HMS Invincible.
    Operated with markings: 005, N

    25 March 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton

    17 September 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton on return from Falkland Islands conflict aboard HMS Invincible

    25 August 1990


    Photographer: Steve Mills
    Notes: With 801 Squadron, HMS Ark Royal, see at the RNAS Lee-on-Solent Air Day

    By 1994

    Transferred to 801 NAS, HMS Ark Royal.

    16 April 1994

    Written off.
    Aircraft shot down by a SAM-7 missile fired by the Bosnian-Serb Army during a second run over the target west of Gorazde, Bosnia. The pilot ejected and was rescued by a US helicopter.
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