{"id":1828,"date":"2019-03-28T13:25:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T13:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2019-03-28T13:25:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T13:25:29","slug":"harrier-50th-anniversary-event-at-newark-air-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/aviation-museum-news\/harrier-50th-anniversary-event-at-newark-air-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrier 50th Anniversary event at Newark Air Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/article-images-19\/NAM-Harrier.jpg\" alt=\"Sea Harrier at Newark Air Museum\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Harrier 50th Anniversary event<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Sunday 14th April 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Sunday 14th April, 2019, the day after its Indoor Aeroboot \/ Aerojumble Sale, the Newark Air Museum is hosting an event to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Harrier entering British military service back in April 1969.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This Harrier Day event has attracted visiting Harrier cockpits and Harrier related displays to the museum\u2019s site here in north eastern Nottinghamshire. Here they will join the museum\u2019s Sea Harrier ZA176 and VTOL (Vertical Take Off &amp; Landing) test-bed aircraft Meteor FR9 VZ608, to help illustrate Nottinghamshire\u2019s part in the VTOL Story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The event will also include participation by Harrier and Sea Harrier veterans (air and ground crew); visiting authors; model displays; aviation artists. Visiting displays confirmed for the event include:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mainly Military Model display<br \/>\nJohn Cox &amp; museum \u2013 Falklands book of remembrance &amp; scrapbook<br \/>\nNewark Air Museum model display \u2013 AV-8B and associated aircraft models<br \/>\nAirfield Research Group display<br \/>\nHarrier related sales stall<br \/>\nPhil Jarvis \u2013 Harrier GR.7 Simulator, ex RAF Wittering<br \/>\nBikini Sate \u2013 Newark Air Museum re-enactors<br \/>\nRichard Scarborough \u2013 Harrier GR.3 &amp; possible Sea Harrier cockpit &amp; display<br \/>\nDave Wright \u2013 Harrier GR.3 cockpit XZ138<br \/>\nAndy Godfrey \u2013 Harrier &amp; VTOL artwork<br \/>\nAndy Ward \u2013 Large Model display<br \/>\nNick Greenall &amp; Harrier Special Interest Group \u2013 Display of about 50 detailed Harrier scale models<br \/>\nMartyn Steele &amp; Ian Hodgkiss \u2013 Harrier GR.3 instrument panel; selection of Harrier stick grips<br \/>\nGary O&#8217;Keefe &amp; Al Partington \u2013 Harrier miscellany<br \/>\nStephen Dring \u2013 3D display\/sales<br \/>\nHucknall Flight Test Museum \u2013 Flying Bedstead model, display and videos<br \/>\nHarrier Preservation Group \u2013 model &amp; display<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Confirmed reunion attendees from the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Harrier Types<br \/>\nGR.1; GR.3; GR.3A; GR.7; GR.7A; GR.9; T.10; T.12<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Harrier Squadrons<br \/>\n1(F) Sqn; 3 Sqn; IV (AC) Sqn; 20(R) Sqn<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">RAF Bases<br \/>\nRAF Gutersloh; RAF Wildenrath; RAF Wittering<br \/>\nThe event is open to the general public and normal museum admission rates apply:<br \/>\nAdults \u00a39.00, Over 65s \u00a38.00, Children \u00a34.50 and Family ticket [2 adults &amp; 3 children] \u00a324.00.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Opening times; 10am to 5pm; last admission 4pm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Full event details and updated exhibit lists can be found on the News &amp; Information page of the museum website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newarkairmuseum.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.newarkairmuseum.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harrier 50th Anniversary event Sunday 14th April 2019 On Sunday 14th April, 2019, the day after its Indoor Aeroboot \/ Aerojumble Sale, the Newark Air Museum is hosting an event to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Harrier entering British military service back in April 1969. This Harrier Day event has attracted visiting Harrier cockpits &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/aviation-museum-news\/harrier-50th-anniversary-event-at-newark-air-museum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Harrier 50th Anniversary event at Newark Air Museum<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[305,61,184,10],"class_list":["post-1828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-museum-news","tag-305","tag-march","tag-newark-air-museum","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1829,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions\/1829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}