| Aircraft | |
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| Registration / Serial: | NASA 704 |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Hawker Siddeley Harrier |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | McDonnell Douglas V-8 Harrier |
| Aircraft Version: | McDonnell Douglas YAV-8B Harrier II |
| C/n (msn): | 712089 |
| Operator Titles: | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration / USA - Marines / DARPA - Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| Location | |
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| City / Airport: | Mountain View - Moffett Federal AirfieldMap |
| Region / Country: | California, United States |
| Airport Codes: | ICAO: KNUQ IATA: NUQ Local: NUQ Other: - |
| Photo Date: | 4 October 1993 |
| Photo by: | Paul Seymour |
| Photo ID: | 706261 |
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First flew with British military serial XW654 in 1971, Delivered to the USMC as 158394 in 1972. Modified by McDonnell Douglas as a YAV-8B-2. Assigned to NASA Ames Research Center, NAS Moffett Field, CA as NASA 704 from 1984 to 1995. Used for boundary layer control, STOL and V/STOL research. Modified into the V/STOL Systems Research Aircraft (VSRA) with the installation of digital fly-by-wire controls for pitch, roll, yaw, thrust magnitude and thrust deflection, and programmable electronic head-up displays. Preserved at Aviation Challenge Museum, Huntsville, AL from 1998. This photo is copyright © Paul Seymour, and may not be used or published in any way without permission. It was added on 11 July 2024, and has since been viewed 263 times. |