Harriers to fly?

Which is privately owned and soon to be joined by a twin seater by the same owner:-)

Except for the one that is flying over there in the US of A.

John Green

I think that you will find that the Harriers sold to the USA were reduced to produce to provide spares for the AV-8B.
There are photos around of the carcasses lined up in the boneyard.

Richard

Martin Baker’s Meteors are both civil registered now.

The Cadets’ FB post doesn’t explicitly say that they are being restored to fly. It says that they are being moved to St Athan, and the author “can’t wait… to hopefully see them fly again very soon”.

Under a RAF serial a Harrier could fly. Meteors and Hunters do.

Would a Harrier be allowed to fly in the UK ?

There seem to be so many unanswered questions on this story.

Maybe for an American collector?

There are plenty of redundant Harrier pilots and crews, and perhaps spares are running out for Hunters?

Don’t forget there will be no one current on Sea Harriers, let alone a T4

Or fly a Spanish one over?

The company were Hawker Hunter limited so seems they could retain their serials and be used for training?

Surely easier to approach the Yanks cap in hand and ask; please may we have a couple of our Harriers back please ?

Full scale mock up F35’s have been produced for deck handling, can’t be for this. I’d be surprised if this were true as you state.

Interesting… If true, it’s maybe for deck handling practice on the new carriers ?
Although if that were the case, they’d done this before now I would have thought ?