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    Airframe Family: English Electric Lightning
    Latest Model:Lightning T.5
    Last Military Serial:XS459 RAF
    Construction Number:B/95019
    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.

    18 December 1965

    First flight.

    Circa 1966

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XS459.

    26 August 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: In service with the Lightning Training Flight when seen at the 1978 RAF Binbrook Air Show.

    21 June 1988

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Air Force.

    April 1994

    To Fenland and West Norfolk Aviation Museum, Walsoken/Walton Highway, Norfolk, England.
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    13 July 2000


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: MArked AM at Fenland and West Norfolk Aviation Museum, Walsoken/Walton Highway, UK

    22 July 2012


    Photographer: Rich Tregear
    Notes: 2012 at West Walton Highway

    May 2021

    To Lightning Museum, Binbrook, Lincolnshire/Lincs, England.
    Under restoration.
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    Photographer: Unknown
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