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    Airframe Family: Avro 698 Vulcan
    Latest Model:Vulcan B.2
    Last Military Serial:XM605 RAF
    Construction Number:set 69
    Compressed ID:Avro Vulcan B.2 sn XM605 RAF cn set...
    Latest Owner or Location:Castle Air Museum, Castle Airport (formerly Castle AFB), Atwater, California

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    Dates

    Event

    1963

    Constructed as a Vulcan B.2.

    20 December 1963

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XM605.

    From 30 December 1963 to 1968

    Transferred to No. 9 Squadron RAF.

    From 16 February 1968 to 1981

    Transferred to No. 44 Squadron RAF.

    30 July 1977


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Vulcan B.2A of 101 Squadron on display at the 1977 Royal Review at RAF Finningley.

    24 June 1979


    Photographer: Peter Russeu-Smith
    Notes: Photographed at the International Air Tattoo at RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire.

    8 September 1981

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
    Presented by the Royal Air Force to the United States Air Force at Castle AFB, CA.
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    1981

    Placed on display with Castle Air Museum, Castle Airport (formerly Castle AFB), Atwater, CA.
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    By October 1984


    Photographer: Wayne Gomes
    Notes: Photographed at the Castle AFB Museum in Atwater,

    30 March 1986


    Photographer: Nate Wilburn
    Notes: Castle AFB Museum.

    12 September 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    July 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    July 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
    Credits
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     National Museum of the United States Air Force
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     Mike Henniger
    Peter Nicholson
    Marcin Rogowski
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