PA28 PLT WAS NOT GIVEN VOR OTS WHEN HE CHKED NOTAMS.

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I FILED AN IFR FLT PLAN AND OBTAINED A RTE BRIEFING VIA DUAT BEFORE THE FLT. THE ROUTING I FILED WAS Q08 (SMOKETOWN ARPT); LRP; HAR; TON; CIP; FKL. IN PERUSING THE NOTAMS THAT DOWNLOADED; I NOTED SEVERAL NOTICES FOR THE HAR VOR INDICATING DIRECTIONS AND DISTANCES THAT IT WAS UNUSABLE. HOWEVER; I MISSED THE NOTAM WELL DOWN THE LIST INDICATING THAT THE VOR WAS OTS. AFTER TKOF FROM Q08; I CONTACTED HARRISBURG APCH AND OBTAINED AN IFR CLRNC THAT WAS ESSENTIALLY AS I HAD FILED. I TRACKED THE 296 DEG RADIAL OUTBOUND FROM LRP TOWARDS THE HAR VOR. HOWEVER; AS I APCHED THE HAR VOR; IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT IT WAS OFF-THE-AIR AND APCH CONFIRMED IT WHEN I QUERIED THEM. BY THAT TIME; I WAS RECEIVING THE TON VOR AND APCH CLRED ME PRESENT POS DIRECT TO TON. IN THE END; NO DAMAGE WAS DONE; BUT IT COULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT IN A HVY IFR/TFC ENVIRONMENT. I SHOULD HAVE PICKED UP THE OTS NOTAM; BUT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER IF THE OLD NOTAMS HAD BEEN SIMPLY DELETED AND THE 'OTS' NOTAM BEEN PUT IN THEIR PLACE. FOR ATC'S PART; THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE CLRED ME TO THE HAR VOR WHEN THEY KNEW IT WAS OTS AND THAT I HAD FILED /U FOR EQUIP.