Over the last nine months Yorkshire's Jet Art Aviation (JAA) has been restoring Sea Harrier FA.2 ZH798 to taxiable condition. Earlier this year, the firm removed three Sea Harriers from RNAS Culdrose in Cornwall and moved them 400 miles north for reassembly and onward restoration -when it found ZH798, one of the UK's final 'new build' first generation Harriers, to be in particularly good order. With very low airframe hours (1,558) it was soon discovered that the engine still had more than 400 hours of 'life' remaining. The jet was delivered to new custodians Makin Air at Leeds East Airport (formerly RAF Church Fenton) on February 1. It was reassembled and returned to 801 NAS markings as when last flown, along with side code 002.
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