Thank you for your virtual visit to the restoration of English Electric Lightning, XS422 ...

Now in our 12th year of restoration and after a huge amount of dedicated work by an international restoration team led by retired Royal Air Force Engineer, Phil Wallis, we have reached a pivitol point in the return to flight of XS422.

Formally with the Empire Test Pilots' School at Boscombe Down at Wiltshire in the UK, XS422 is a 1960's British Cold War Intercepter, an English Electric Lightning.

Latest News 1st Feb 2013

We have a recently reformed our US Volunteer team, headed up by Bob Simms. If you would like to join the team then please get in touch to info@lightning422supporters.co.uk You can follow the team's progress on Twitter, or Facebook

While the project has the skills and resources to complete the restoration we are now approaching a stall due to lack of funding. We will shortly be launching a Crowd funding campaign so more news to follow on that and how you can get involved.

Finally for now, plans are well in motion for the next major US visit. After a hugely successful November 2012 trip, during which both engines were installed, the UK engineering team will be hooking up with the US volunteers to progress the aircraft towards our next goal of ground running.

The next stage in our plan to return XS422 to the air is to get it to ground running condition. This we hope hope will take place early this year. That trip will require additional funding to cover fuel costs particularly. Any donations towards this will be warmly received.

At the same time we also seek the further £180,000 sterling that would see this wonderful aircraft brought to flight status, and you can help us there as well.

We are open to all approaches from parties interested in significantly financially assisting the restoration.

On a smaller scale, if you would like to support the project financially with a donation or to join our growing international Supporters Group (currently just $300 or £200 for a lifetime membership) then you can do so very easily via PayPal to our Supporters Group. Please be sure to include your contact details so we can thank you or log your membership.
Alternatively if you live in the UK, you can send a cheque payable to "AALO Ltd" to 32a, Glenwood Road, Catford, London, SE6 4NF

We also happily welcome media enquiries and have a media Page