English Electric Lightning

United Kingdom / England / Longridge /
 statue, aircraft on display
A Lightning F.53 (ZF580) as a gate guard. This is painted in its RAF aircraft markings as worn after return from the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) where it bore serial 53-672. This was returned to the UK around 1986 (with 2,305 flying hours) when British Aerospace sold Tornado aircraft to the RSAF as part of the Al Yamamah deal. The English Electric Lightning was a supersonic (Mach 2) jet fighter aircraft of the Cold War era.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Electric_Lightning
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Coordinates:   53°46'46"N   2°34'13"W
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