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    Airframe Family: Avro 698 Vulcan
    Latest Model:Vulcan B.2
    Last Military Serial:XM575 RAF
    Last Civil Registration:G-BLMC
    Latest Owner or Location:East Midlands Aeropark, East Midlands Airport (North Side), Castle Donington, Leicestershire / Leics, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Vulcan B.2.
    Was the second Vulcan B2 Blue Steel aircraft to be fitted with upgraded Olympus 301 engines.

    21 May 1963

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XM575.

    21 May 1963

    Transferred to No 617 (Dambuster) Squadron, Scampton.
    617 Squadron became part of the Sccampton Wing.

    From Circa October 1969 to Circa December 1969

    Converted to free-fall mode.

    Transferred to No 617 (Dambuster) Squadron, Scampton.
    Returned to 617.

    1970

    Transferred to Waddington.

    Transferred to No 617 (Dambuster) Squadron, Scampton.

    May 1975

    Transferred to 101 Squadron, Waddington.

    Transferred to No. 50 Squadron.

    June 1978

    Transferred to No 44 Squadron, RAF Waddington.

    Circa 26 May 1982


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at Mildenhall.

    29 May 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Mildenhall Air Fete 82

    28 January 1983

    Last flight.

    Civil registration G-BLMC reserved but not taken up.

    28 January 1983

    To East Midlands Aeropark, East Midlands Airport (North Side), Castle Donington, Leicestershire/Leics, England.
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    27 November 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed at Aeropark Museum at East Midlands Airport in the UK

    23 January 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: The preserved Vulcan ( and Nimrod) look a little forlorn in the snow at the EMA Aeropark
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Robert Nichols
    Peter Nicholson
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