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    Airframe Family: Avro 698 Vulcan
    Latest Model:Vulcan B.2
    Last Military Serial:XL426 RAF
    Last Civil Registration:G-VJET
    Compressed ID:Avro Vulcan B.2 sn XL426 RAF cr G-V...
    Latest Owner or Location:Vulcan Restoration Trust, RAF Rochford, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Vulcan B.2.

    23 August 1962

    First flight.
    From Woodford.

    September 1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XL426.

    13 September 1962

    Transferred to 83SQN, RAF Scampton.
    Wing Commander John Slessor selected XL426 as his personal aircraft for his three-year tour, and she bore the squadron commander pennant painted below her cockpit.

    10 September 1963

    On September 10th, 1963, whilst returning from Goose Bay, Canada, John Slessor flew XL426 to RAF Scampton in 4 hours 5 minutes - an unofficial record, pre-Concorde, for a crossing of the North Atlantic at that time.

    April 1964

    Transferred to Scampton Wing, RAF Scampton.

    Circa 1971

    Transferred to 617SQN, RAF Scampton.

    From Circa January 1982 to 30 March 1984

    Transferred to 50SQN, RAF Waddington.

    July 1983


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Glenview Naval Air Station, IL

    May 1984

    Transferred to Vulcan Historic Flight, RAF Waddington.

    9 June 1984


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Vulcan B.2 of 50 Squadron stationed at RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire on display at the 1984 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete, Suffolk.

    9 June 1984


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Mildenhall Air Fete 84

    9 June 1984


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    19 December 1986

    To Vulcan Memorial Flight/Roy E. Jacobsen, Southend.

    From 7 July 1987 to By 1993

    To Vulcan Memorial Flight, Southend with new c/r G-VJET.

    Displayed at Southend.

    From 1991 to By 1993

    Performed engine runs.

    From 28 July 1993 to By 2008

    To Vulcan Restoration Trust, RAF Rochford, Southend-On-Sea, Essex, England.
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    Restored.

    From October 1995 to By 2004

    Performed fast taxy runs at Southend.

    6 August 2007


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Preserved at Southend Airport

    2009


    Photographer: Andy West
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Military Aircraft Markings by Howard J. Curtis
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Vulcan Restoration Trust
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Nichols
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