Lightning database

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1		Tail number links to the Photo album	Mk	Airframe hours	Flights/notes	First Flight	Pilot on First Flight	C/N	Other Tail	Other Tail	Other Tail	Other Tail	Notes / Website Link	Current location if Extant	Scrapped/crashed or Current state	Date of Scrap / Crash / expiry	Cause of Crash
2		Tail number links to the Photo album	Mk	Airframe hours	Flights/notes	First Flight	Pilot on First Flight	C/N	Other Tail	Other Tail	Other Tail	Other Tail	Notes / Website Link	Locations with hyperlinks take you to the English Electric Lightning survivors Google map.	Scrapped/crashed or Current state	Date of Scrap / Crash / expiry	Cause of Crash

3	1	WG760	P.1A Prototype	268:17	703 flights	04/08/1954	Roly P. Beamont	95001	7755M				History data sheet from the RAF Museum	RAF Museum Cosford, Shifnal, Shropshire TF11 8UP	Complete	-
4	2	WG763	P.1A Prototype	133:00		18/07/1955	Beamont	95003	7816M				Museum Website	Boscombe Down Aviation Collection, Old Sarum Airfield, Old Sarum, Salisbury SP4 6DZ	Complete	-
5	3	WG765	P.1A Prototype	0:00		-	-	95002					Structural test airframe at Warton, never flew		Scrapped - Warton	N/K
6	4	XA847	P.1B Prototype	205:30	468 flights	04/04/1957	Beamont	95004	8371M					Giles Howell, Kettleburgh, Suffolk	Complete - dismantled	-
7	5	XA853	P.1B Prototype	153:25	296 flights	05/09/1957	Des de Villiers	95005							Scrapped - Boscombe Down	N/K
8	6	XA856	P.1B Prototype	293:00	296 flights	03/01/1958	Beamont	95006							Scrapped - Rolls Royce Hucknall	01/12/1968
9	7	XG307	F.1 Dev. batch	276:10		03/04/1958	Beamont	95007							Scrapped - Warton	19/06/1970
10	8	XG308	F.1 Dev. batch	187:00		16/05/1958	Beamont	95008							Scrapped - RAE Bedford fire dump	25/05/1905
11	9	XG309	F.1 Dev. batch	230:00		23/06/1958	de Villiers	95009							Scrapped - RAE Farnborough R. J. Coley	27/06/1968
12	10	XG310	F.1/F.3 Dev. batch	192:07	374 flights	17/07/1958	J. W. C. Squier	95010							Scrapped - P&EE / DTEO Shoeburyness/Foulness Is.	By end 1973
13	11	XG311	F.1 Dev. batch	140:10	238 flights	02/10/1958	de Villiers	95011							Crashed	31/7/1963	– Crashed in the River Ribble Estuary near Warton after the undercarriage failed to lower, pilot ejected safely.
14	12	XG312	F.1 Dev. batch	303:53	429 flights	29/12/1958	de Villiers	95012							Scrapped - P&EE / DTEO Shoeburyness/Foulness Is.	By Feb 1971
15	13	XG313	F.1 Dev. batch	351:17	560 flights	02/02/1959	Beamont	95013	G27-115				RSAF see below - ground instructional airframe	Unknown location, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia	Was Complete now unknown, aircraft was moved sometime prior to 2008.	-
16	14	XG325	F.1 Dev. batch	221:02	282 flights	26/02/1959	Johnny Squier	95014						Privately owned, Thetford, Norfolk	Cockpit - (A/C scrapped at P&EE / DTEO Shoeburyness/Foulness Is.)	By 1979
17	15	XG326	F.1 Dev. batch	416:02	551 flights	14/03/1959	Peter Hillwood	95015							Scrapped - P&EE / DTEO Shoeburyness/Foulness Is.	By Feb 1975
18	16	XG327	F.1 Dev. batch	214:00		10/04/1959	Johnny Squier	95016	8188M						Burnt/scrapped - RAF Manston	01/08/1993
19	17	XG328	F.1 Dev. batch	127:37	220 flights	18/06/1959	Beamont	95017							Scrapped - P&EE / DTEO Shoeburyness/Foulness Is.	01/03/1975
20	18	XG329	F.1 / F.3 Dev. batch	315:30		30/04/1959	Beamont	95018	8050M				Museum Website	Ian Hancock. Norfolk and Suffolk Aircraft Museum, The Street, Flixton, Bungay, Suffolk, NR35 1NZ.	Complete	-
21	19	XG330	F.1 Dev. batch	170:24		30/06/1959	Johnny Squier	95019							Scrapped - Warton 1968 then to Chorley scrap dealer	23/05/1905
22	20	XG331	F.1 / F.3 Dev. batch	196:14	290 flights	14/05/1959	Johnny Squier	95020					Locat & owner under investigation having received new info	Gloster aviation club - Clive Davies in a private location - cockpit restoration has been carried out	Cockpit	-
23	21	XG332	F.1 Dev. batch	138:52	214 flights	29/05/1959	Johnny Squier	95021							Crashed	13/09/1962	– Abandoned on approach near Hatfield, Herts after it caught fire and burned through tailplane control rods .
24	22	XG333	F.1 Dev. batch	293:00		26/09/1959	Tim M. S. Ferguson	95022							Scrapped - H.H. Bushell Ltd.	02/11/1970
25	23	XG334	F.1 Dev. batch	23:35	34 flights	14/07/1959	Johnny Squier	95023							Crashed	05/03/1960	– Abandoned when the landing gear jammed, crashed off Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk.
26	24	XG335	F.1 Dev. batch	204:26	286 flights	07/08/1959	Ferguson	95024							Crashed	11/01/1965	– Abandoned, crashed near Woodborough, Wiltshire after the landing gear jammed.
27	25	XG336	F.1 / F.3 Dev. batch	369:30		25/08/1959	Johnny Squier	95025	8091M						Scrapped - No.1 S of TT, RAF Halton	01/03/1974
28	26	XG337	F.1 / F.3 Dev. batch	477:00	698 flights	05/09/1959	Keith Isherwood	95026	8056M				History data sheet from the RAF Museum	RAF Museum Cosford, Shifnal, Shropshire TF11 8UP	Complete	-
29	27	XL628	T.4 Prototype	40:51	94 flights	06/05/1959	Beamont	95049							Crashed	01/10/1959	– Abandoned over the Solway Firth, off Garlieston, Wigton Bay, Dumfriesshire after control was lost when the fin detached.
30	28	XL629	T.4 Prototype	1383:55		29/09/1959	Beamont	95050						DERA Boscombe Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP4 0JF	Complete, gate guard	-
31	29	XM134	F.1	229:15		03/11/1959	Beamont	95030							Crashed	11/09/1964	– Abandoned 30 miles east of Happisburgh, Norfolk when the landing gear leg stuck up.
32	30	XM135	F.1	1343:00		14/11/1959	Ferguson	95031					Engineering Officers Inadvertant Flight	Imperial War Museum Collection, Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England	Complete	-
33	31	XM136	F.1	742:00		01/12/1959	John C. Hall	95032							Crashed	13/09/1967	– Abandoned on approach to RAF Coltishall after reheat fire followed By loss of tailplane control.
34	32	XM137	F.1	766:25		14/12/1959	Isherwood	95033							Scrapped, Shackleton's Scrapyard, Beacon Hill, Siddal, Yorks.	Dec. 1974
35	33	XM138	F.1	714:35		23/12/1959	Isherwood	95034							Cat5/Scrapped - Coltishall / Farnborough	16/12/1960	– Damaged beyond repair By fire after landing at RAF Coltishall when a fire bottle exploded.
36	34	XM139	F.1	1893:00		12/01/1960	de Villiers	95035	8411M						Scrapped, Birds Commercials, Long Marston	01/03/1974
37	35	XM140	F.1	435:00		25/01/1960	de Villiers	95036							Scrapped - RAF Lyneham By B.A. Taylor, Bromwich	By Nov. 1966
38	36	XM141	F.1	399:00		09/02/1960	Hall	95037						Original fin held at the Farnborough Air Sciences Trust, possibly originated from the AAIB.	Scrapped - RAF Lyneham By B.A. Taylor, Bromwich	By Nov. 1966
39	37	XM142	F.1	418:00		19/02/1960	Ferguson	95038							Crashed	26/04/1963	– Abandoned off Cromer, Norfolk following hydraulic failure.
40	38	XM143	F.1	557:00		27/02/1960	Isherwood	95039							Scrapped - RAF Lyneham By B.A. Taylor, Bromwich	By Nov. 1966
41	39	XM144	F.1	1564:00		14/03/1960	Ferguson	95040	8417M				Museum Website	Atlantic AirVenture Co Ltd, Shannon Town Roundabout, Shannon, Co. Clare, Ireland	Front Fuselage
42	40	XM145	F.1	876:00		18/03/1960	de Villiers	95041							Scrapped, Shackleton's Scrapyard, Beacon Hill, Siddal, Yorks.	Nov. 1974
43	41	XM146	F.1	557:00		29/03/1960	Hall	95042							Scrapped - RAF Lyneham By B.A. Taylor, Bromwich	By Nov. 1966
44	42	XM147	F.1	1648:00		07/04/1960	Ferguson	95043	8412M					Fin outside the Fire Section & ATC at RAF Wattisham (c1986), 56 & 74 Sqn markings	Scrapped - Pendine then Birds Commercials, Long Marston	01/03/1994
45	43	XM148	F.1	0:00		-	-	-					Never Completed, Warton		Not completed, scrap	-
46	44	XM149	F.1	0:00		-	-	-					Never Completed, Warton		Not completed, scrap	-
47	45	XM163	F.1	865:00		23/04/1960	de Villiers	95044							Scrapped, Shackleton's Scrapyard, Beacon Hill, Siddal, Yorks.	By Nov. 1974
48	46	XM164	F.1	878:00		13/06/1960	de Villiers	95045							Scrapped, Shackleton's Scrapyard, Beacon Hill, Siddal, Yorks.	By Nov. 1974
49	47	XM165	F.1	532:00		30/05/1960	Beamont	95046							Scrapped - RAF Lyneham By B.A. Taylor, Bromwich	By Nov. 1966
50	48	XM166	F.1	610:00		01/07/1960	Ferguson	95047							Scrapped - RAF Lyneham By B.A. Taylor, Bromwich	By Nov. 1966
51	49	XM167	F.1	525:55	681 flights	14/07/1960	Hall	95048							Scrapped - RAF Lyneham By B.A. Taylor, Bromwich	By Nov. 1966
52	50	XM168	F.1	0:00		-	-	95049					Structural test airframe, never flown.		Scrapped - Warton, Lancs.	N/K
53	51	XM169	F.1A	812:00		16/08/1960	Beamont	95056	8422M				Museum Website	Morayvia, North Rd, Kinloss, Forres IV36 3YA, Scotland	Front Fuselage - Calvert's Scrapyard, Carlton Road, Carlton Miniott, Thirsk	01/08/1989
54	52	XM170	F.1A	0:14	1 flight	12/09/1960	Isherwood	95057	7877M				Lowest hours flown.		Cat5/Scrapped - RAF Swinderby fire dump	By end 1976	– Suffered mercury contamination during assembly which spread further during first flight, heavy landing, written off.
55	53	XM171	F.1A	2232:00		20/09/1960	Beamont	95058							Scrapped, Shackleton's Scrapyard, Beacon Hill, Siddal, Yorks.	Dec. 1974
56	54	XM172	F.1A	2083:00		10/10/1960	Isherwood	95059	8427M					Lakes Lightnings, Spark Bridge, South Cumbria LA12 7RR	Complete	-
57	55	XM173	F.1A	2142:00		01/11/1960	Isherwood	95060	8414M					Privately owned by Dyson Ltd, Tetbury Hill, Malmesbury, Wiltshire SN16 0RP	Complete	-
58	56	XM174	F.1A	1262:25		15/11/1960	Isherwood	95055							Crashed	29/11/1968	– Abandoned over the sea following a fire, Crashed into Ballmullo Quarry two miles west of RAF Leuchars, Fife .
59	57	XM175	F.1A	770:00		23/11/1960	de Villiers	95062					Withdrawn from active use 1965, static test rig at Warton.		Scrapped - Warton, Lancs.	early 1974
60	58	XM176	F.1A	?		01/12/1960	Isherwood	95063							Scrapped, Leconfield / Shackleton's Scrapyard, Beacon Hill, Siddal, Yorks.	01/07/1974
61	59	XM177	F.1A	2240:00		20/12/1960	Beamont	95064							Scrapped, Leconfield / Shackleton's Scrapyard, Beacon Hill, Siddal, Yorks.	Aug. 1974
62	60	XM178	F.1A	1378:00		30/12/1960	Isherwood	95065	8418M				Museum Website	Aviation Museum, Rue Charles de Gaulle, 21420 Savigny-les-Beaune, Bourgogne, France	Complete	-
63	61	XM179	F.1A	353:00		04/01/1960	de Villiers	95066					OS grid ref: TM 02550 51316		Crashed	06/06/1963	– Abandoned after it collided with XM181 during a bomb burst manoeuvre over Great Bricett, Suffolk.
64	62	XM180	F.1A	1887:00		23/01/1961	de Villiers	95067	8424M						Scrapped - RAF Gutersloh	By early 1983
65	63	XM181	F.1A	1462:00		25/01/1961	Beamont	95068	8415M						Scrapped - Swefling Engineering, Saxmundham	25/09/1987
66	64	XM182	F.1A	2279:00		06/02/1961	Ferguson	95069	8425M						Scrapped - RAF Gutersloh	By early 1983
67	65	XM183	F.1A	1477:00		09/02/1961	Beamont	95070	8416M						Scrapped - Ponderosa Scrapyard, Easingwold, Yorks.	31/01/1988
68	66	XM184	F.1A	1014:00		27/02/1961	Ferguson	95082							Crashed/Cat5/Scrapped	17/04/1967	– Caught fire on landing at RAF Coltishall after a fuel leak and not repaired.
69	67	XM185	F.1A	32:25		27/02/1961	Isherwood	95083							Crashed	28/06/1961	– Abandoned 1 mile North of Lavenham village, Suffolk when the landing gear and air brakes jammed after Hydraulics failure.
70	68	XM186	F.1A	420:46	488 flights	14/03/1961	Ferguson	95084							Crashed	18/07/1963	– Abandoned in a spin during an aerobatic display near RAF Wittering, pilot killed (first Lightning fatality).
71	69	XM187	F.1A	509:00		20/03/1961	de Villiers	95085	7838M						Crashed/Cat5, to RAF Newton then scrapped early 1980's at RAF Coningsby	19/11/1963	– Bounced and struck the runway in a nose down attitude which eventually caused the stbd u/c leg to collapse.
72	70	XM188	F.1A	1397:00		27/03/1961	Isherwood	95086							Crashed/Cat5/Scrapped by W Whatnell, Ponderosa scrapyard, Easingwold, Yorks	21/06/1968	– Hit a hangar when throttles jammed open while taxying at RAF Coltishall.
73	71	XM189	F.1A	1928:00		30/03/1961	de Villiers	95087	8423M						Scrapped - RAF Gutersloh	By early 1983
74	72	XM190	F.1A	854:00		01/05/1961	Ferguson	95088							Crashed	15/03/1966	– Abandoned following a fire warning North of Cromer, Norfolk.
75	73	XM191	F.1A	557:00		08/05/1961	Ferguson	95089	7854M	8590M			Needs update - privately owned, possibly North Scarle, Lincs	Sold by Jet Art Aviation - suspected location shown.	Front Fuselage (A/C scrapped at RAF Wattisham)	09/06/1964	– Landed safely but was damaged beyond repair when the engine caught fire on approach to RAF Wattisham.
76	74	XM192	F.1A	2186:00		25/05/1961	Isherwood	95090	8413M				Museum Website	Thorpe Camp Visitor Centre, Tattershall Thorpe, Lincolnshire, LN4 4PE	Complete	-
77	75	XM213	F.1A	886:00		03/06/1961	Isherwood	95091							Crashed/Cat5/Scrapped	06/05/1966	– Veered of runway at RAF Coltishall and hit a fence when the landing gear was retracted prematurely during take-off.
78	76	XM214	F.1A	2254:00		29/06/1961	Isherwood	95092	8420M						Scrapped - RAF Gutersloh	By Nov 1977
79	77	XM215	F.1A	2201:00		11/07/1961	de Villiers	95093	8421M						Scrapped - RAF Gutersloh, (front fuselage to Bruggen scrap By Aug 1984)	By Nov 1977
80	78	XM216	F.1A	2110:00		28/07/1961	Ferguson	95095	8426M						Scrapped - RAF Gutersloh	By Nov 1977
81	79	XM217	F.1A	0:00		-	-	-					Not completed, used as spares source		Not completed, scrap	-
82	80	XM218	F.1A	0:00		-	-	-					Not completed, used as spares source		Not completed, scrap	-
83	81	XM966	T.4/T.5	152:51	263 flights	15/07/1960	Beamont	95051							Crashed	22/07/1965	– Crashed into Irish Sea, 12 miles off St Bees Head, Cumbria after loss of fin and rudder, both aircrew ejected at mach2 and survived.
84	82	XM967	T.4/T.5	263:00		29/03/1962	Jimmy Dell	95052	8433M				Stored at RAF Colerne museum, moved to Kemble 1976/77		Scrapped - Kemble fire dump torched late 1977.	By late 1979
85	83	XM968	T.4	1908:00		09/11/1960	Beamont	95053	8541M						Crashed	24/02/1977	– Abandoned following hydraulic failure near RAF Gutersloh.
86	84	XM969	T.4	1887:00		28/03/1961	Dell	95054	8592M						Scrapped - RAF Binbrook	15/04/1988
87	85	XM970	T.4	1968:00		05/05/1961	Ferguson	95055	8529M						Scrapped - RAF Bruggen	By Oct. 1992
88	86	XM971	T.4	688:30		23/06/1961	Isherwood	95071							Crashed	22/01/1967	– Abandoned, crashed at Tunsted, 2 miles east of RAF Coltishall, Norfolk when the nose radar fairing became detached and was ingested by the intake causing double engine failure.
89	87	XM972	T.4	2012:00		29/04/1961	de Villiers	95072							Scrapped - RAF Waddington	By end 1981
90	88	XM973	T.4	1700:00		17/05/1961	Ferguson	95073	8528M						Scrapped - RAF Bruggen	By Sep 1992
91	89	XM974	T.4	1753:00		19/06/1961	Ferguson	95074							Crashed	14/12/1972	– Abandoned of Happisburgh, Norfolk after both reheats and one engine caught fire.
92	90	XM987	T.4	1908:00		13/07/1961	Ferguson	95075							Scrapped - Hanningfield Metals, Essex	By Dec 1992
93	91	XM988	T.4	1600:00		21/08/1961	Ferguson	95076							Crashed	05/06/1973	– Abandoned after entering an uncontrollable spin from a mach 1.1 spiral descent, 23 miles off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
94	92	XM989	T.4/T.54	940:00		30/08/1961	Ferguson	95077	54-650	54-607			RSAF See below.	Unknown location, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia	Complete, but the aircraft was moved during December 2013, current locat unknown.	-
95	93	XM990	T.4	1282:00		21/09/1961	Beamont	95078							Crashed	19/09/1970	– Abandoned after control was lost during a display at Little Plumstead, Norfolk. Crashed into a wood at South Walsham, Norfolk.
96	94	XM991	T.4	1634:00		04/10/1961	Beamont	95079	8456M						Cat5/scrapped	06/1975	– Damaged beyond repair in a ground fire at Gutersloh, West Germany. Burnt on station fire dump June 1975.
97	95	XM992	T.4/T.54	788:00		13/12/1961	Beamont	95080	54-651	54-608			RSAF See below.	Prince Sultan Air Base, Al Kharj, Saudi Arabia	Complete	-
98	96	XM993	T.4	42:00		09/12/1961	Isherwood	95100							Crashed/Cat5/scrapped	12/12/1962	– The Port undercarriage snapped, the wing dug in and the aircraft broke its back on landing at RAF Middleton St. George.
99	97	XM994	T.4	1949:00		12/03/1962	de Villiers	95101							Scrapped - Birds Commercial, Long Marston	By 1977
100	98	XM995	T.4	2121:00		25/01/1962	de Villiers	95104	8542M						Scrapped - RAF Wildenrath	By 1992