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    Airframe Family: English Electric Lightning
    Latest Model:Lightning F.6
    Last Military Serial:XR753 RAF
    Compressed ID:English Electric Lightning F.6 sn X...
    Latest Owner or Location:RAF Coningsby, Coningsby, Lincolnshire / Lincs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Lightning F.6.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XR753.

    To Leeming Bar-Gatenby-Londonderry, Yorkshire, England.
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    15 September 1973


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Lightning F.6 of 23 Squadron as seen at the 1973 RAF Leuchars Airshow.

    20 July 1974


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Lightning F.6 of 23 Squadron seen at the 1974 RAF Leconfield Open Day

    26 August 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Lightning F.6 of 5 Squadron on display at the 1978 RAF Binbrook Airshow.

    21 January 1997


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Lightning F.6 as preserved by 11 Squadron at RAF Leeming in January 1997.

    November 2005

    To RAF Coningsby, Coningsby, Lincolnshire/Lincs, England.
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    24 July 2014


    Photographer: Jon Wickenden
    Notes: English Electric Lightning F.6 XR753 wearing full 11Sqn markings and displayed outside the Squadron HQ on the south side of RAF Coningsby
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