ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 137201
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Date: | Tuesday 25 October 1977 |
Time: | |
Type: | Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.3 |
Owner/operator: | 233 OCU RAF |
Registration: | XV804 |
MSN: | 712054 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Spitalgate, near Grantham, Lincolnshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Wittering, Cambridgeshire (EGXT) |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Written off (damaged beyond repair) when made an emergency landing at RAF Spitalgate, near Grantham, Lincolnshire on 25/10/1977
Struck off charge as Cat.5(G/I) and allocated the GIA serial 9280M. Withdrawn from flying use and began a long career as grounded instructional airframe, first at the NBC (Nuclear Biological & Chemical) Defence Centre at Winterbourne Gunner, Wiltshire. Later (by 2002) to the EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) Training center at RAF North Luffenham, Leicestershire for use in weapons loading and unloading training.
To Everett Aero, Spughton, Suffolk 06/03/2013: later sold on to the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tuscon, Arizona
Sources:
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http://web.archive.org/web/20111206015544/[LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.dasa.mod.uk/modintranet/publications/aircraftAccidents/accidentsindex.htm]l
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http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=XV 3.
http://roys-blog-moments-in-time.blogspot.com/2012/07/harrier-xv804.html 4.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2999972 5.
http://www.radarmalvinas.com.ar/09FEB%20BRIT%20HARRIER/5MAY%20HAR-PROD%20traba.pdf Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
15-May-2013 17:27 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
17-Jul-2015 13:46 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
04-Dec-2018 09:49 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Nature, Operator] |
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