English Electric Lightning - Aircraft On Display

Aircraft On Display

The following aircraft are on public display:

• WG760, the first prototype P.1A at the RAF Museum Cosford, England.
• WG763, the second prototype P.1A at the Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, England.
• XG329 P1B/Lightning F.1 pre-production aircraft at the Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum, Flixton, England.
• XG337 P1B/Lightning F.1 pre-production aircraft at the RAF Museum Cosford.
• XM135 Lightning F.1A at the Imperial War Museum Duxford, England (in which ground engineer Taffy Holden took his unplanned flight in July 1966)
• XM192 Lightning F.1A at Tattershall Thorpe, Lincolnshire, England.
• XN730 Lightning F.2A at the Luftwaffe Museum, Gatow, Germany
• XN769 Lightning F.2A at the Malta Aviation Museum, Ta' Qali, Malta
• XN776 Lightning F.2A at the National Museum of Flight, East Fortune, Scotland.
• XN782 Lightning F.2A at the Flugausstellung Hermeskeil, Germany.
• XR728 Lightning F.6 with LPG, Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome, Leicestershire, England (taxi-able).
• XR749 Lightning F.3 outside Score Group's Integrated Valve and Gas Turbine Plant, Peterhead, Scotland.
• XR770 Lightning F.6 gate guardian at 5 Squadron, RAF Waddington, Waddington, England.
• XR771 Lightning F.6 at the Midland Air Museum, Coventry, England.
• XS417 Lightning T.5 at the Newark Air Museum, Newark, England.
• XS420 Lightning T.5 on loan to the Farnborough Air Sciences Trust, Farnborough, England.
• XS459 Lightning T.5 at the Fenland and West Norfolk Aviation Museum, Wisbech, England.
• XS897 Lightning F.6 at AeroVenture, Doncaster, England.
• XS903 Lightning F.6 at the Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, England.
• XS904 Lightning F.6 with LPG, Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome, Leicestershire, England (taxi-able).
• XS925 Lightning F.6 stand mounted at Castle Motors on the A38 near Liskeard, Cornwall, England.
• XS936 Lightning F.6 at the RAF Museum, London, England.
• XN770 Lightning F.52 at the Royal Saudi Air Force Museum, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• ZF578 Lightning F.53 as XR753 at the Tangmere Military Aviation Museum, Tangmere, England.
• ZF579 Lightning F.53 at the Gatwick Aviation Museum, Charlwood, near Gatwick Airport, England.
• ZF580 Lightning F.53 outside BAE Systems, Samlesbury, England
• ZF581 Lightning F.53 at the Bentwaters Cold War Museum, Suffolk, England.
• ZF582 Lightning F.53 (nose-section only) at the Bournemouth Aviation Museum, England.
• ZF583 Lightning F.53 at the Solway Aviation Museum, Carlisle Airport Cumbria England.
• ZF588 Lightning F.53 at the East Midlands Airport Aeropark, Castle Donington, England.
• ZF592 Lightning F.53 as 53-686 at the City of Norwich Aviation Museum, Norwich, England
• ZF593 Lightning F.53 recently transferred from the Warner-Robins Museum of Aviation, Georgia, USA to the Pima Air & Space Museum near Tucson Arizona, USA.
• ZF594 Lightning F.53 at the North East Aircraft Museum, Sunderland, England.
• XM989 Lightning T.54 at the main entrance to King Abdul-Aziz Air Base, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
• ZF597 Lightning T.55 at the Olympic Flight Museum, Washington, USA.
• ZF598 Lightning T.55 as 55-713 at the Midland Air Museum, Coventry, England.
• 55-716 Lightning T.55 at the Royal Saudi Air Force Museum, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• XL629 Lightning T.4 inside the main gate at MoD Boscombe Down, Wiltshire, England.

The following are on display but with no public access:

• XG313 Lightning F.1 at the VIP terminal on King Abdul-Aziz Air-base Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
• XN767 Lightning F.52 pylon mounted at the Aeromedical centre on King Abdul-Aziz Air-base Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.