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    Airframe Family: English Electric Lightning
    Latest Model:Lightning F.6
    Last Military Serial:XP693 RAF
    Last Civil Registration:ZU-BEY
    Compressed ID:English Electric Lightning F.6 sn X...
    Latest Owner or Location:Thunder City, D. F. Malan, Cape Town, Western Cape

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    Dates

    Event

    1962

    Constructed as a Lightning F.6.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XP693.

    4 July 1992


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: 1992 photo at RAF Wattisham

    16 December 1992

    First flight.
    Final operational flight with the British Aerospace test fleet at Warton,Lancashire.

    31 December 1992

    To Barry James Pover, Plymouth with new c/r G-FSIX.

    26 January 1993

    To Downderry Construction Group Ltd, Kelly Bray, Callington, Cornwall keeping c/r G-FSIX.

    13 February 1997

    Civil registration, G-FSIX, cancelled.
    Exported to South Africa.

    To Thunder City, D. F. Malan, Cape Town, Western Cape with new c/r ZU-BEY.

    Based at Thunder City, D. F. Malan, Cape Town, Western Cape.
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    19 September 2008


    Photographer: John Tomlinson
    Notes: 2008 photo at Cape Town - Thunder City
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