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    Airframe Family: English Electric Lightning
    Latest Model:Lightning F.3
    Last Military Serial:XP749 RAF
    Compressed ID:English Electric Lightning F.3 sn X...
    Latest Owner or Location:RAF Binbrook

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Lightning F.3.

    11 December 1963

    First flight.

    8 April 1964

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XP749.

    21 July 1979


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Lightning F.3 of RAF Binbrook Lightning Training Flight in action at the 1979 RAF Coningsby Air Show.


    Photographer: Unknown

    By July 1984

    Transferred to 11 SQN, RAF Binbrook.
    Operated with markings: BK2

    18 July 1984


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Chivenor Airshow

    18 July 1984


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    18 July 1984


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    24 May 1986


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Lightning F.3 of the Lightning Training Flight based at RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire on display at the 1986 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete.

    July 1987

    Last flight.

    New serial number assigned: 8926M RAF

    Transferred to RAF Binbrook.
    As a Ground Instruction airframe.

    21 October 1987

    Sold.

    18 January 1988

    Scrapped.
    Cut up and scrapped by WH Whatnell, Sutton-on-the-Forest.
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     UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
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