New home being created for Binbrook Lightning

English Electric Lightning F.6 XR724, the last complete example extant at Binbrook in Lincolnshire, has a new home The jet has spent most of the last three decades outside, but planning permission was recently granted for the aircraft's owners, the Lightning Association, to erect a shelter near the site of the demolished control tower at the former airfield. The cost has largely been met by the group itself – it has managed to raise approximately £8,500 but requires around another