List of surviving Avro Vulcans
Surviving aircraft

List of surviving Avro Vulcans

Section Title: Surviving aircraft
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Serial	Geographic location	Institutional location	History	Photo

XH558	Doncaster, South Yorkshire	Robin Hood Airport	The last airworthy Vulcan (XH558) was restored to flying condition by the Vulcan to the Sky Trust. The first post-restoration flight, which lasted 34 minutes, took place on 18 October 2007.	-

XJ823	Irthington, Cumbria	Solway Aviation Museum	The 22nd B.2, later converted for the MMR role. Completed 20 April 1961, delivered to 27 Squadron a day later.	-

XJ824	Duxford, Cambridgeshire	Imperial War Museum Duxford	Completed 11 May 1961, delivered to 27 Squadron five days later. Latterly with 101 Squadron.	-

XL318	Colindale, London	Royal Air Force Museum London	The first B.2 delivered to 617 Squadron, The Dam Busters, based at RAF Scampton, on 1 September 1961. Performed its last flight (and last of the 617 as a Vulcan unit) on 11 December 1981, filmed for Yorkshire Television's 617-The Last Days of a Vulcan Squadron.	-

XL319	Sunderland, Tyne and Wear	North East Aircraft Museum	The second B.2 delivered to 617 Squadron based at RAF Scampton, on 20 October 1961. Delivered from RAF Waddington to Sunderland Airport (the former RAF Usworth) on 21 January 1983, the largest aircraft ever to land on the site, performing a small display.	Avro Vulcan B.2 XL319, NELSAM, 27 June 2015 (02).JPG

XL360	Baginton, Warwickshire	Midland Air Museum	Completed 28 February 1962, delivered to 617 squadron on 2 March. Latterly with 101 Squadron.	-

XL361	Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada	CFB Goose Bay	Completed 14 March 1962, being delivered to 617 Squadron the next day. Latterly with 9 Squadron, due to a fire in the fuselage during a trans-Atlantic flight from Woodford to Offutt AFB in Nebraska, XL361 had to make an emergency landing at CFB Goose Bay on 13 November 1981, site of an RAF Unit and used regularly as a Vulcan exercise base.	AvroVulcanGooseBay.JPG

XL426	Southend-on-Sea, Essex	Southend Airport	XL426 (G-VJET) is preserved in taxiable condition at Southend Airport, England.	-

XM573	Ashland, Nebraska, United States	Strategic Air and Space Museum	The 101st Vulcan produced, delivered in March 1963. Gifted by the RAF to the museum adjacent to Offutt Air Force Base, Bellevue, Nebraska, in 1982 as a token of the links between the RAF and the US Strategic Air Command, based at Offutt.	-

XM575	Castle Donington, Leicestershire	East Midlands Aeropark	Delivered to 617 squadron in May 1963. Took part in the Falklands War victory flypast over London on 28 October 1982.	-

XM594	Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire	Newark Air Museum	The penultimate Vulcan built, completed on 9 July 1973 and delivered to 27 Squadron ten days later. A 1982 permission for a Vulcan to be sold to the volunteer run NAM was initially delayed by the Falklands War, and then refused because their runway at the former RAF Winthorpe, now Winthorpe Showground, was deemed unsafe to land a Vulcan.	-

XM597	East Fortune, East Lothian	National Museum of Flight	Completed on 26 August 1963, it was delivered to 12 Squadron the next day. The only other surviving Vulcan to have engaged the enemy in the Black Buck missions, setting the record for longest bombing raid in Black Buck 5, and causing an international incident when it had to divert to Brazil in Black Buck 6, both feats commemorated with two mission markings and a Brazilian flag painted on the nose.	-

XM598	Cosford, Shropshire	Royal Air Force Museum Cosford	Completed on 30 August 1963, it was delivered to 12 Squadron at RAF Coningsby on 4 September. Was the originally designated bombing aircraft for Black Buck 1, but which had to turn back minutes into the flight.	-

XM603	Woodford, Greater Manchester	Woodford Aerodrome	Completed 29 November 1963, it was delivered to 9 Squadron on 4 December. Latterly with 44 Squadron, it was the test-bed aircraft for the K2 tanker conversions.

XM605	Atwater, California, United States	Castle Air Museum	Completed on 17 December 1963, it was delivered to 9 Squadron on the 30th. Latterly with 50 Squadron.	-

XM606	Bossier City, Louisiana, United States	Barksdale Global Power Museum	Completed on 18 December 1963, it was delivered to 12 Squadron on the 30th. Latterly with 9 Squadron.	-

XM607	Waddington, Lincolnshire	RAF Waddington	Completed on 30 December 1963, it was delivered to 35 Squadron on New Year's Day 1964. XM607 was the bombing aircraft in Operation Black Buck, raids one, two and seven.	XM607 SIDE VIEW.JPG

XM612	Horsham St Faith, Norfolk	City of Norwich Aviation Museum	Completed on 28 February 1964 by A.V. Roe Co.	-

XM655	Wellesbourne, Warwickshire	Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield	XM655 (G-VULC) was the antepenultimate Vulcan to be built, and is the youngest surviving example, preserved in taxiable condition at Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield by the 655 Maintenance & Preservation Society.	-

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XL426 and XM655 are the surviving Vulcans, were kept in taxiable condition.

final_sentence: XL426 and XM655 are the surviving Vulcans, were kept in taxiable condition.