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    Airframe Family: English Electric Lightning
    Latest Model:Lightning F.2A
    Last Military Serial:XN728 RAF
    Compressed ID:English Electric Lightning F.2A sn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Mark Rumble, Binbrook Airfield, Lincolnshire

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Lightning F.2.

    26 October 1961

    First flight.

    Converted to a Lightning F.2A.

    1 April 1963

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XN728.

    Transferred to 92 SQN, RAF Germany.
    Operated with markings: V

    4 April 1977

    Last flight.
    To RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire.

    New serial number assigned: 8546M RAF
    Utilised as a decoy.

    27 November 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: a misty morning at RAF Coningsby

    3 October 1983

    To Balderton/New Balderton, Nottinghamshire/Notts, England.
    A1 Commercial Sales Ltd, Balderton.
    View the Location Dossier

    By 9 September 2011

    Scrapped.
    Cockpit saved.

    After September 2011

    To Mark Rumble, Binbrook Airfield, Lincolnshire.
    Cockpit only.
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Thunder and Lightnings
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Wikipedia
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Nichols
    Peter Nicholson
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