Airline: | Royal Air Force (RAF) | Date: | 18/7/2006 |
Aircraft: | Avro Vulcan B.2 | Location: | United Kingdom, Edinburgh RAF East Fortune |
RegNo: | XM597 | Photographer: | Alastair C McBean |
C/N: | More info: | Contact photographer | |
Remarks: | This Vulcan landed at East Fortune after they re-opened the runway ( including the removal of a roundabout at a road junction). The aircraft is significant as this was the plane which diverted to Rio de Janeiro after the refuelling probe broke during the Falklands conflict of 1982. |