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    Airframe Family: Avro 698 Vulcan
    Latest Model:Vulcan B.1
    Last Military Serial:XA900 RAF
    Construction Number:PS12
    Compressed ID:Avro Vulcan B.1 sn XA900 RAF cn PS1...
    Latest Owner or Location:RAF Cosford Aerospace Museum

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Vulcan B.1.
    Constructed by Avro at Woodford

    7 March 1957

    First flight.

    23 May 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XA900.

    May 1957

    Transferred to 230 Operational Conversion Unit, RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire.

    19 November 1965

    Last flight.
    Flown to No.2 School of Technical Training at RAF Cosford, Shropshire as instructional airframe.

    November 1965

    New serial number assigned: 7896M RAF
    Maintenance serial.

    December 1975

    To RAF Cosford Aerospace Museum.
    Last example of intact Vulcan B.1.

    1 August 1976


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Vulcan B.1 with RAF Maintenance serial 7896M and previously with 230 Operational Conversion Unit on display at RAF Cosford in the Summer of 1976.

    1986

    Scrapped.
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