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    Airframe Family: Avro 698 Vulcan
    Latest Model:Vulcan B.2
    Last Military Serial:XM573 RAF
    Construction Number:Set 54
    Compressed ID:Avro Vulcan B.2 sn XM573 RAF cn Set...
    Latest Owner or Location:Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum, Ashland, Nebraska

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Vulcan B.2.

    27 March 1963

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XM573.

    28 March 1963

    Transferred to No. 83 Squadron, Bonber Command, RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire, England.

    February 1968

    Transferred to No. 230 Operational Conversion Unit, RAF Finningley, South Yorkshire.

    Circa 1 June 1969


    Photographer: Wg Cdr Peter McLeod
    Notes: XM573 at Malta in the Summer of 1969 with C130 186 in from RAF Thorney Island in the background

    June 1970

    Transferred to Akrotiri Wing, Cyprus.

    April 1974

    Transferred to No. 27 Squadron, RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire.

    By 1978

    Transferred to 44 Squadron, RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire.

    17 June 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: This Vulcan B.2 of 44 Squadron based at RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire took part in a QRA scramble at the 1978 RAF Waddington Airshow.

    Transferred to No. 230 Operational Conversion Unit, RAF Finningley,.

    By 1982

    Transferred to No. 9 Squadron, RAF Waddington.

    April 1982

    Withdrawn from use.

    7 June 1982

    Ferry flight. Delivered to Strategic Air Command Museum, Offutt AFB, Omaha, NE.
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    Circa 1997

    To Strategic Air Command Museum, Ashland, NE.
    Moved to new facility while under construction.

    16 May 1998

    Placed on display with Strategic Air Command Museum, Ashland, NE.
    New museum opened.

    2001

    To Strategic Air and Space Museum, Ashland, NE.
    Museum name changed.
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    25 February 2011


    Photographer: John Meneely

    28 April 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    28 April 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    28 April 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    28 April 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    31 May 2014


    Photographer: Mike Ross
    Notes: Getting some fresh air after years inside.

    22 June 2015

    To Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum, Ashland, NE.
    Museum name changed.
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    9 August 2017


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    21 May 2022


    Photographer: Jered Klug
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2013 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Aerodata Quantum+
    Strategic Air and Space Museum
    Thunder and Lightnings
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
    Peter Nicholson
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