Painted with Italian AF markings when Italian crews were trained by 56 (R) Sqn. ZE340 was never delivered to Italy, it's RAF career ended at RAF Cosford as instructional air frame 9298M.
ZE340 acted as back up aircraft for the delivery to Tornado F3s to the Italian AF. In the end ZE832 was delivered as MM7202/36-12 and ZE340 returned to RAF squadron service.