ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 157426
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Date: | Friday 5 September 1975 |
Time: | |
Type: | English Electric Lightning F Mk 2A |
Owner/operator: | 92 (East India) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | XN775 |
MSN: | 95128 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia -
Germany
|
Phase: | Standing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Gütersloh (GUT/ETUO) |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:f/f T.M.S. Ferguson 1-10-62 at EE/BAC Samlesbury. To 19 Squadron, 17-12-62. First F 2 in RAF service; to Warton for F 2A conversion, 7-6-68; to 92 Squadron as ‘B’, 15-1-69. First Lightning F.2A to be repainted in green camouflage in early 1974.
Written off 5/9/1975: Declared a write off (damaged beyond econpmical repair) at Gütersloh, West Germany after failure to overcome a severe fuel leak problem. Struck off charge as Cat.5(G/I) 5/9/1975. To 8448M at Gutersloh as a decoy, parked out on the airfield until scrapped in 1984
Sources:
1.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1975.htm 2.
http://www.aviation-picture-hangar.co.uk/xn775.html 3.
https://www.planepictures.net/v3/show_en.php?id=905564 4.
https://www.aviationartcards.com/html/lightning_2007_-_print_7.html 5.
http://web.archive.org/web/20160304001833/http://www.lightning.org.uk/histf2f2a.html Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
03-Jul-2013 00:23 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
28-Oct-2019 19:50 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Narrative] |
05-Nov-2019 22:19 |
Anon. |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
05-Feb-2020 11:42 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Operator] |
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