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    Airframe Family: English Electric Lightning
    Latest Model:Lightning F.2A
    Last Military Serial:XN776 RAF
    Compressed ID:English Electric Lightning F.2A sn...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of Flight, East Fortune, North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Lightning F.2.

    18 October 1962

    First flight.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XN776.

    February 1963

    Transferred to 19 Squadron, RAF Gutersloh, West Germany.

    January 1969

    Transferred to Warton.

    Converted to a Lightning F.2A.
    Converted at Warton.

    January 1977

    Transferred to 92 Squadron, RAF Gutersloh, West Germany.

    5 April 1977

    Transferred to RAF Leuchars.

    New serial number assigned: 8535M RAF
    Assigned a maintenance serial and served as a ground armaments and services training airframe.

    22 June 1982

    To National Museum of Flight, East Fortune, North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland.
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    9 October 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Preserved at Museum of Flight at East Fortune, Scotland
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