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    Airframe Family: English Electric Lightning
    Latest Model:Lightning F.53
    Last Military Serial:ZF582 RAF
    Construction Number:95281C
    Last Civil Registration:G27-46
    Compressed ID:English Electric Lightning F.53 sn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Bounemouth Aviation Museum, Bournemouth International Airport, Bournemouth, Dorset, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Lightning F.53.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Saudi Air Force with s/n 53-676.

    Assigned civil registration: G27-46

    15 January 1968

    First flight.
    Flown by Chief Test Pilot Roland Bee Beamont.

    Markings Applied: 53-676.

    20 September 1968

    Ferry flight. Delivered to Lightning Storage Unit (LSU), Royal Saudi Air Force, Riyadh.
    Delivered via Jeddah by Dick Ingram to the Lightning Storage Unit.

    Kept in storage until delivered.

    13 January 1971

    Transferred to Number 6 Squadron, Prince Khalid Airbase, Khamis Mushayt.
    Delivered to 6 Squadron by Hedley Molland on this date.

    By May 1975

    Transferred to Lightning Conversion Unit (LCU), King Abdulazziz Air Base, Dhahran.
    Operated with markings: G

    March 1977

    Transferred to 13 Squadron.
    The LCU was converted to 13 Sqadron. n in March 1977. During the summer of 1978 it moved to Number 2 Sqn at King Faisal Air Base, Tabuk. In March 1980 the aircraft was given a new serial 207.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n ZF582.
    British Aerospace (BAe) at Warton bought back 22 Saudi Lightnings with the intention of re-selling them.

    22 January 1986

    Ferry flight.
    Flown by Flt Lt Rands from Tabuk to Warton wearing the serial ZF582.

    Assigned to Warton for storage.

    To Wensley Haydon-Baillie.

    Scrapped.

    To Marine Salvage Ltd, Portsmouth.
    The cockpit and wings were obtained by Marine Salvage.

    The wings were acquired by the Gatwick Aviation Society at Charlwood near Gatwick Airport.

    To Paul Smith, Desborough.

    To Philip Leaver, Luton.

    To Dave Thomas, Welshpool.

    To Kelvin Petty, Reading.

    21 September 2004

    To Bounemouth Aviation Museum, Bournemouth International Airport, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.
    Only the cockpit section survives here.
    View the Location Dossier

    16 May 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Bournemouth Aviation Museum
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