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    Airframe Family: SEPECAT Jaguar
    Latest Model:Jaguar GR.1A
    Last Military Serial:XZ365 RAF
    Construction Number:S.132
    Compressed ID:SEPECAT Jaguar GR.1A sn XZ365 RAF c...
    Latest Owner or Location:2 SQN, RAF Laarbruch

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Jaguar GR.1.

    19 March 1976

    First flight.

    1 October 1976

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XZ365.

    1 October 1976

    Transferred to Jaguar Maintenance Unit, RAF Abingdon.
    On Delivered from BAC Warton to Abingdon.

    By July 1983

    Transferred to 41 SQN, RAF Coltishall.
    Operated with markings: J

    23 July 1983


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Greenham Common IAT 83

    Converted to a Jaguar GR.1A.

    By July 1985

    Transferred to 2 SQN, RAF Laarbruch.

    9 July 1985

    Written off.
    Struck trees on the top of a 2,450ft hill near Meschede, east of Dortmund, West Germany. The pilot (Flg. Off. I. J. Baston) maintained control of the aircraft but ejected when a fire started in the cockpit, and the aircraft began to disintegrate.
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    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
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     Robert Nichols
    Peter Nicholson
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