Serial | 095182 | |||||||||||||||
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First Flight | 08.5.1964 | |||||||||||||||
Model | Lightning F.3 | |||||||||||||||
Status | Written-off | |||||||||||||||
Comments | w/o 26.8.1983 crashed into the North Sea near North Bay, Scarborough, N. Yorks, while on a positioning flight from RAF Binbrook to Tees-Side Airport to participate in an air show the next day. The pilot was asked to perform an unauthorised fly past at an RAF recruiting event near Scarborough, whilst en route. While manoeuvring near the coast, the a/c stalled as the pilot attempted to avoid colliding with a cliff top (with LTF); | |||||||||||||||
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