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Registration: XM597

Construction Number: SET61

Model Avro 698 Vulcan B2

Operator: National Museum of Flight Scotland

Airport: East Fortune - Museum, UK - Scotland

Photographer: Derek Heley

Date Taken: 07/02/2010

Date Submitted: 15/05/2019

This aircraft took part in the Black Buck raids over the Falklands Islands in 1982. It flew against the Radar sites on BB 5 & 6, damaging the TPS43 on BB5 and destroying a Skyguard radar on BB6. It then landed in Rio, following a refuelling incident.

Picture ID:1653868

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