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    Airframe Family: English Electric Lightning
    Latest Model:Lightning F.6
    Last Military Serial:XR770 RAF
    Construction Number:95235
    Compressed ID:English Electric Lightning F.6 sn X...
    Latest Owner or Location:RAF Manston History Museum, RAF Manston, Woodchurch, Kent, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Lightning F.6.

    16 December 1965

    First flight.
    Flown at Salmesbury, Lancashire.

    10 September 1966

    Spotted at the Society of British Aircraft Companies Airshow at Farnborough in Royal Saudi Air Force markings with dual s/n XR 770 and 53-.

    26 September 1966

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XR770.

    Transferred to 74 Squadron.

    September 1974

    Transferred to 23 Squadron, RAF Leuchars, Fife.

    April 1976

    Transferred to 56 Squadron, RAF Wattisham, Suffolk.

    August 1978

    Transferred to 5 Squadron, RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire.

    13 June 1987


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at Coningsby.

    June 1988

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Air Force.

    June 1988

    To Town of Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

    September 2006

    To Grimsby-Cleethorpes Aircraft Preservation Group, Grainthorp.

    September 2008

    To 5 Squadron, RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire.

    3 March 2015

    To RAF Manston History Museum, RAF Manston, Woodchurch, Kent, England.
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    22 June 2023


    Photographer: Andrew Appleton
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