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Arnold Glass's Doomed Airforce

At the end of the service life of the EE Lightning Arnold Glass purchased several complete airframes with the view of turning some to the air.

Unfortunately this never happened.

Some of those airframes purchased did survive the axeman. Most notably were XS542 now back in the air in South Africa and XS458 still at Cranfield and still performing re-heat runs

Others were not so lucky and were reduced to scrap with only a few cockpit sections being rescued those will appear on the Preserved section of The Lightning Files

The Photos
 

XV328/BZ

1988

XS923/BE

1988

XS458/DY

1988

 

XS452/BT

1988

XS452/BT

1988

XS899/BL

1988


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