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A sight never again to be repeated, as XH558 final retires from the air. Southport afforded one last opportunity for The Red Arrows to provide this formation with the Vulcan, and wonderful it was to be there.

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Aircraft

G-VLCN - Avro 698 Vulcan B.2 - Private

XH558 is in search of a new home, Vulcan To The Sky Trust announced that their lease at Doncaster Sheffield Airport wouldn’t be renewed and that XH558 would have to leave the site by the end of June 2023, since then the aircraft has been left outside whilst its owners search for a new home

Alex Roebuck G-VLCN
1,720 9 0 Avro 698 Vulcan B.2
G-VLCN - Avro 698 Vulcan B.2 - Private

Luca Bani G-VLCN
3,375 13 0 Avro 698 Vulcan B.2
G-VLCN - Avro 698 Vulcan B.2 - Private

Mark Stevens G-VLCN
2,614 3 0 Avro 698 Vulcan B.2

Photo location

A15-307 - Boeing CH-47F Chinook - Australia - Army

Operating out of a local oval during the Gold Coast 500, conducting paratrooper drops and flypasts

ThomasWilson A15-307
1,102 5 0 Boeing CH-47F Chinook
ZK352 - Eurofighter Typhoon FGR.4 - United Kingdom - Royal Air Force (RAF)

Zhou ZK352
2,158 0 0 Eurofighter Typhoon FGR.4
N7505B - Schweizer 269C - Private

Zhou N7505B
1,818 0 0 Schweizer 269C

Photographer

G-NWEM - Eurocopter EC 135T2 - Bond Air Services

This HeliMed aircraft is pictured departing from Chorlton Park, having set down close to the local Primary School to deliver emergency medical personnel to a local incident

Paul Markman G-NWEM
3,253 4 1 Eurocopter EC 135T2
ZM324 - Raytheon T-6C Texan T1 - United Kingdom - Royal Air Force (RAF)

Rocket 1 returns to Valley at the end of a training sortie

Paul Markman ZM324
4,311 2 0 Raytheon T-6C Texan T1
ZM341 - Raytheon T-6C Texan II - United Kingdom - Royal Air Force (RAF)

Anglesey 82 arrives back at base after a log cross country sortie from Leuchars

Paul Markman ZM341
3,339 0 0 Raytheon T-6C Texan II

Registration

G-VLCN

Photo Date

Sep 19, 2015

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Oct 12, 2015

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Notes

A sight never again to be repeated, as XH558 final retires from the air. Southport afforded one last opportunity for The Red Arrows to provide this formation with the Vulcan, and wonderful it was to be there.

Camera

Canon 50D | Canon 70-300mm f4 L
G-VLCN - Avro 698 Vulcan B.2 - Private

XH558 is in search of a new home, Vulcan To The Sky Trust announced that their lease at Doncaster Sheffield Airport wouldn’t be renewed and that XH558 would have to leave the site by the end of June 2023, since then the aircraft has been left outside whilst its owners search for a new home

Alex Roebuck G-VLCN
1,720 9 0 Avro 698 Vulcan B.2
G-VLCN - Avro 698 Vulcan B.2 - Private

Luca Bani G-VLCN
3,375 13 0 Avro 698 Vulcan B.2
G-VLCN - Avro 698 Vulcan B.2 - Private

Mark Stevens G-VLCN
2,614 3 0 Avro 698 Vulcan B.2
A15-307 - Boeing CH-47F Chinook - Australia - Army

Operating out of a local oval during the Gold Coast 500, conducting paratrooper drops and flypasts

ThomasWilson A15-307
1,102 5 0 Boeing CH-47F Chinook
ZK352 - Eurofighter Typhoon FGR.4 - United Kingdom - Royal Air Force (RAF)

Zhou ZK352
2,158 0 0 Eurofighter Typhoon FGR.4
N7505B - Schweizer 269C - Private

Zhou N7505B
1,818 0 0 Schweizer 269C
G-NWEM - Eurocopter EC 135T2 - Bond Air Services

This HeliMed aircraft is pictured departing from Chorlton Park, having set down close to the local Primary School to deliver emergency medical personnel to a local incident

Paul Markman G-NWEM
3,253 4 1 Eurocopter EC 135T2
ZM324 - Raytheon T-6C Texan T1 - United Kingdom - Royal Air Force (RAF)

Rocket 1 returns to Valley at the end of a training sortie

Paul Markman ZM324
4,311 2 0 Raytheon T-6C Texan T1
ZM341 - Raytheon T-6C Texan II - United Kingdom - Royal Air Force (RAF)

Anglesey 82 arrives back at base after a log cross country sortie from Leuchars

Paul Markman ZM341
3,339 0 0 Raytheon T-6C Texan II
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