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    Airframe Family: Avro 698 Vulcan
    Latest Model:Vulcan K.2
    Last Military Serial:XL445 RAF
    Construction Number:Set 48
    Compressed ID:Avro Vulcan K.2 sn XL445 RAF cn Set...
    Latest Owner or Location:RAF Scampton Heritage Centre, RAF Scampton, Scampton, Lincolnshire / Lincs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Vulcan B.2.

    24 November 1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XL445.

    By 1981

    Transferred to 35SQN, RAF Scampton.
    Noted at RNAS Yeovilton Air Day 1981-08-01.

    1 August 1981


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Air Day

    1982

    Converted to a Vulcan K.2.

    By November 1982

    Transferred to 50SQN, RAF Waddington.
    Noted at RAF Waddington 1982-11-26.

    26 November 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Waddington

    1 April 1984

    Last flight.
    To RAF Lyneham for the fire dump.

    April 1984

    New serial number assigned: 8811M RAF

    1987

    Scrapped.
    Nose retained.

    29 July 2005

    Placed on display with Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum, Flixton, Suffolk, England.
    Nose only.
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    20 July 2014


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Flixton, Suffolk, UK

    December 2018

    Placed on display with RAF Scampton Heritage Centre, RAF Scampton, Scampton, Lincolnshire/Lincs, England.
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     UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
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     Andrew Appleton
    John Bennett
    Robert Nichols
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