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    Airframe Family: English Electric Lightning
    Latest Model:Lightning T.5
    Last Military Serial:XS422 RAF
    Last Civil Registration:N422XS
    Compressed ID:English Electric Lightning T.5 sn X...
    Latest Owner or Location:N422XS Inc, Boynton Beach, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Lightning T.5.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XS422.

    Transferred to Boscombe Down.

    August 1987

    Last flight.
    Flown at Boscombe, then placed in storage.

    From 1989 to By 1997

    To Wensley Haydon-Baillie, Warrington.

    Stored dismantled at Southampton.

    1997

    To Marine Salvage Co./Keith Smith, Portsmouth.

    Transported by ground.
    Moved from Southhampton to Portsmouth for storage.

    From 1997 to By 2002

    To Anglo-American Lighting Organisation, Stennis, MS.

    20 November 1997

    Transported by ship.
    Arrived at Stennis after being moved from the UK.

    From By 1999 to By 2003

    Restored.
    Restored to flying condition at Stennis. The nose section of s/n ZF595, a T.55, was incorporated in the restoration.

    15 January 2002

    To Anglo American Lightning Organisation Inc, Kiln, MS with new c/r N422XS.

    Based at Anglo-American Lightning Organisation, Slidell, MS.
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    10 August 2010

    To unknown owner with c/r N422XS.
    Sale reported to a new owner in London.

    24 August 2010

    To N422XS Inc, Pass Christian, MS keeping c/r N422XS.

    13 December 2018

    To N422XS Inc, Boynton Beach, FL keeping c/r N422XS.

    15 May 2023

    To N422XS Inc, Kiln, MS keeping c/r N422XS.

    2 July 2023

    To N422XS Inc, Boynton Beach, FL keeping c/r N422XS.

    26 September 2023

    To N422XS Inc, Flowood, MS keeping c/r N422XS.

    13 May 2024

    To N422XS Inc, Boynton Beach, FL keeping c/r N422XS.
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     Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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