Harriers in museums

What about ZG477 at Cosford and XZ987 at Stafford I cannot see any mention of them.

More pic’s of ‘the thing‘ here….

http://www.fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=52510

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Link to a previous thread referring to this particular example:

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?109262-Warton-Kestrel-GR1-whereabouts&highlight=

Gokone,
Just the one test property, contained bit’s of P1127 and Harrier, if you squint hard enough.

Having recently visited ‘a location in Suffolk ‘ there is nothing from the Harrier Heritage Centre, the last GR3’s received came from Cornwall.

“Send reinforcements we’re going to advance” becomes “Send three and four pence we’ re going to a dance”

There’s was a P1127 based rig dumped out at Warton for years, it was scooped up with other Harrier material following the retirement of the type from BAe sites. Ended up at Wittering, however was sold by the Mod tender system as it was not on the RAF books. Current location much as described…

Not quite the horror story portrayed above I think……

Thx Jag ‘n’ Jack for update on the ‘1127, what about the GR3 though, I assume this was a complete airframe? Or have I been told incorrectly and it was in fact just one airframe involved?

What Mark said, sold to Everett’s by MoD

“Send reinforcements we’re going to advance” becomes “Send three and four pence we’ re going to a dance”

There’s was a P1127 based rig dumped out at Warton for years, it was scooped up with other Harrier material following the retirement of the type from BAe sites. Ended up at Wittering, however was sold by the Mod tender system as it was not on the RAF books. Current location much as described…

Pictures of this hybrid mash up have appeared on this forum previously, the front end was unflown P1127, the centre was believed to be part Harrier and there was lots of plywood and polystyrene involved as well.

Not quite the horror story portrayed above I think……

WITTERING HARRIER/KESTREL SELL-OFF Q

Does anyone have any info on the museum at Wittering and an update on its airframe sell-off?

I heard today that a Harrier (I believe a GR3) and a Kestrel given to Wittering by BAe were sold off to Everett Aero, with the Kestrel being bought from Everett by another dealer with a well-known passion for the aircraft.

I don’t know if anyone knows who I could contact at BAe as to why these airframes were given when they are now apparently disposed of from the base, but I’d be grateful if anyone knows why such a museum would sell off its own history, using aircraft which any non-RAF related collection would welcome with open arms.

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jack ruskin . . . mr harrier

i’m after screws, we have loads missing and some bright spark has put some nasty steel engineering screws in which have now gone rusty leaving trails down the paintwork and the heads are so far gone need drilling out grrrrrrr!

like to replace as soon as so i can crack on with some painting. . . if the poxy weather would stop persisting down

pete, tangmere military aviation museum

This is how XW268 looked several weeks ago.

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Who needs Harrier screws ?

XV965 is back on display at the recently opened new building at the Beijing University museum – photographed on Thursday 5 September…

Ken

Yes 439 was one of ours as well Pete,sorry cant help with the screws… I am all metric these days lol !
Not sure who got hold of all the spares when the aircraft were retired !

rgds baz

tell me about it bazv

just a few weeks back after one of our chaps removed the navigation unit (centre cockpit on the GR3) he asked me to remove the main instruments left and right, just a few screws and slide out, yeah rite!! what a ball acher that was, spent 9 days removing, cleaning up and restoring paint to its former pretty state, enjoyed it lots, now i know how to do it i can do it again providing the seat is out

i’m gradually working my way round ZA195, undoing all service panels, still a lot of screws missing, pozzi cross head variety (short) know where i can beg borrow steel (purchase GULP) need a few hundred at least, then i can crack on with a repaint

and i’m also after a one or a pair of rather nice Sea Eagle ASM, any ideas??

nice to chat with someone else who worked on ZA195, we get a few visitors here and there, that have been associated with her
our wings judging by various panels have XZ439, which is Art Nalls privately owned Sea Harrier in the US
but he says his wings are off another, wished it had been ours, be nice to know they still flying
but now i’d like to know who has ours

I know XW-924 is not at Cottesmore anymore, this was taken at 3sqn site Coningsby in 2010.

FRS.2 (or FA2 as you prefer) Sea Harrier ZA195 (which i look after) formally was a development aircraft with BAe,

Welcome to the forum Pete 😀
Definitely FRS2
In a previous life I sometimes used to look after 195,the Sea Harriers were always a ‘challenge’ to work on but not as bad as the earlier tin wing Harriers – esp in the cockpit area !

rgds baz

That’s created problems for me, the only way I could find my way around Shrivenham College to get to the Sports Hall on away badminton matches was to use her as a reference point 🙁

hello everyone – i’m new to this site, i currently work as a volunteer at the Tangmere Military Aviation Museum near Chichester in West Sussex, UK.
I can update your list on the where a bouts of two particular aircraft which now reside at our Museum.

FRS.2 (or FA2 as you prefer) Sea Harrier ZA195 (which i look after) formally was a development aircraft with BAe, previously in storage at St. Athan and Yeovilton and privately purchased by GJD Services and on display at Tangmere from 2008ish.
http://www.tangmere-museum.org.uk/museum-aircraft/sea-harrier-frs2

we also have recently purchased GR3 RAF Harrier XV744 from the Shrivenham College, was originally a GR1 and one of the two birds (the other XV741) that flew in the Daily Mails Transatlantic Air Race back in May 1969.
http://www.tangmere-museum.org.uk/museum-aircraft/hawker-siddeley-harrier-gr3

any questions relating to these aircraft, ask away and i will try to answer or naturally you are very welcome to come down and visit, spend loads of money and when i’m around on Tuesdays and Thursdays you might get to sit in the cockpit if your lucky, weather permitting

RLangham – The East Fortune machine is from the same development batch of Harriers
that produced the Wittering GR.1 (DB). That is her designation . The laser nose was fitted for aerodynamic trials and test. These GR.1 (DB) machines ironed out the Harrier in the hands of Bristol Siddeley ,Boscombe Down and the manufacturers.

Harriers GR.3 XV753 is with Classic Flight at Newquay . Saw it yesterday when visiting.