First flown at 14 September 1980, delivered to the Luftwaffe on 17 December 1980. It was the assigned to the Tri-National Tornado Training Establishment (TTTE) which was a multinational (UK, Germany and Italy) air unit based at RAF Cottesmore (UK). It returned to Germany in 1993 and was withdrawn from use in 2011. It went into storage at by April of that year. The aircraft is most probably scrapped in 2012.