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    Airframe Family: English Electric Lightning
    Latest Model:Lightning F.2A
    Last Military Serial:XN774 RAF
    Compressed ID:English Electric Lightning F.2A sn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Boston, Lincolnshire

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Lightning F.2.

    27 September 1962

    First flight.

    Converted to a Lightning F.2A.

    13 February 1963

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XN774.

    Transferred to 92 SQN, RAF Germany.
    Operated with markings: F

    4 April 1977

    Transferred to RAF Coningsby.
    As an airfield decoy.

    4 April 1977

    New serial number assigned: 8551M RAF

    27 November 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: acting as a decoy on a misty morning at RAF Coningsby

    September 1995

    Scrapped.
    Cockpit section saved.

    After September 1995

    To Boston, Lincolnshire.
    Cockpit section only.

    Circa 1999

    Scrapped.
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