Lightning Training Units
| LTF (Lightning Training Flight) | |
![]() RAF Binbrook Lightning Training Flight Formed 1st October 1975 as the successor to "C" flight 11 Sqd Disbanded 16 April 1987 Types Operated F3 T5 F6 |
![]() F3
T5 |
| LCU (Lightning Conversion Unit) 226 OCU (Operational Conversion Unit) | |
![]() 65 Sqd / 226 OCU |
F1 |
| Motto: VI ET ARMIS : BY FORCE OF ARMS | |
![]() 145 Sqd / 226 OCU |
![]() F1 |
| Motto: DIU NOCTUQUE PUGNAMUS : BY DAY AND BY NIGHT WE ARE FIGHTING | |
| 2T Sqd / 226 OCU |
F3 |
AFDS (Air Fighting Development Sqd) |
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AFDS Formed December 1959 at RAF Coltishall Disbanded at RAF Binbrook 30th June 1967 Types Operated F1 F2 F3 T4 F6 |
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ETPS (Empire Test Pilots School) |
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ETPS Based at the A&AEE (Aeroplane & Armament Experimental Establishment) Boscombe Down Types Operated T4 T5 |
T4
T5 |
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