Aviation Photography - RAF Binbrook

RAF Binbrook
Looking Back (to my pre-digital camera days)
September 1986

A brief photo-report using my scanned black and white film taken during a base visit.

English Electric Lightning F.6 (XS897 'AC') with 5 Squadron.

Left to right: Lightning T.5 (XS419 'DV') with Lightning Training Flight (LTF)
Lightning F.6 (XP707 'DB') with 5 Squadron.

Left to right: Lightning F.6 (XS932 'AG') with 5 Squadron.
Lightning F.3 (XP751 'DA') with Lightning Training Flight (LTF).

Lightning F.3 (XR713 'DD') with Lightning Training Flight (LTF).

Left to right: Lightning F.3 (XR713 'DD') with Lightning Training Flight (LTF). As photographed at RAF Leuchars in 2002 and at Bruntingthorpe in 1996.

Lightning T.5 (XS456 'DX') with Lightning Training Flight (LTF).

Left to right: Lightning T.5 (XS456 'DX') with Lightning Training Flight (LTF).

Left to right: Lightning F.6 (XS897 'AC') with 5 Squadron.

Left to right: Lightning F.6 (XS898 'BM') with 11 Squadron.
Lightning F.3 (XR713 'DD') with Lightning Training Flight (LTF).

Lightning F.6 (XS898 'BM') with 11 Squadron.

Left to right: Lightning T.5 (XS459 'AW') with 5 Squadron.
Lightning F.6 (XR755 'BN' and ? ) with 11 Squadron.

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Left to right: Supermarine Spitfire F.22 (PK664 'V6-B') RAF Binbrook gate guard. To RAF St Athan 1989 to 1995, then RAF Museum Reserve Collection, Stafford till 2005 and Science Museum, South Kensington, London till 2007. To Kennet Aviation, North Weald in 2013 in exchange for a P-40 found in the Egyptian desert.
Lightning F.3 (XP748) in 11 Squadron markings. It was removed to the Pendine ranges for use as a target when RAF Binbrook closed in 1988. It ws scrapped at Pendine in 2000.