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    Airframe Family: English Electric Lightning
    Latest Model:Lightning T.5
    Last Military Serial:XS416 RAF
    Construction Number:B1/95001
    Compressed ID:English Electric Lightning T.5 sn X...
    Latest Owner or Location:Lightning Museum, Binbrook, Lincolnshire / Lincs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Lightning T.5.

    20 August 1964

    First flight.

    16 July 1965

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XS416.

    By May 1980

    Transferred to Lightning Training Flight, RAF Binbrook.

    By May 1980

    Markings Applied: V

    31 May 1980


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Greenham Common.

    31 May 1980


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Newbury Air festival, RAF Greenham Common

    1988

    To Tank and Vessels Industries, Lincolnshire.

    To Covenham Saint Mary-Ludney, North Somercotes, Lincolnshire/Lincs, England.
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    December 1992

    To Humberside.

    To Grainthorpe.

    September 2008

    To Whaley Farm, New York, Lincolnshire/Lincs, England.
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    Markings Applied: DU

    9 July 2013


    Photographer: Jon Wickenden
    Notes: Panavia Tornado GR.1 ZA361 and English Electric Lightning T.5 XS416 in stored at Whaley Farm Airstrip near RAF Coningsby

    To Lightning Museum, Binbrook, Lincolnshire/Lincs, England.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    United Kingdom Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee amp; Wood
    Individual Contributors
     Andrew Appleton
    Robert Nichols
    Jon Wickenden
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