The Vulcan XH558 bomber, which has been a star of the show at the Sunderland worldwide Airshow in the past, will be flying over the region before retiring.
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Final timings won’t be confirmed until tomorrow, after a crew briefing, but the Vulcan is provisionally set to fly over Durham Tees Valley Airport (DTVA) at around 1.30pm – 25 minutes after taking off from Doncaster. The route from there will take XH558 back past Alderley Edge on a flight path to Ellesmere before it flies on to Shrewsbury.
Cold War icon XH558 will fly over Middle Wallop and Old Sarum in Wiltshire then Bristol Airport and Filton before heading for Cardiff Airport, then on to Gloucestershire and over Gloucester Airport at Staverton.
At Doncaster police and emergency services, local authority and the airport are concerned about growing issues because of the huge numbers of people who gather to watch the aircraft take off.
The aircraft’s guardians say there will be at least two more flights in late October.
Tomorrow will see the plane visit as far north as East Fortune, Scotland.
On Sunday, (October 11) the Vulcan will complete the “Southern” section of its tour- a route which will see it soar over Manston.
The aircraft, which will be ground at the end of the month, will spend its final few weeks flying the length and breadth of the country, giving the public their last chance to see the plane airborne.
Used by the Royal Air Force (RAF), between 1956 and 1984, only 136 models of the jet-powered strategic nuclear bomber were ever built.
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But due to the high number of miles it has done, sponsors backing out and the fact it has become harder to find men and women still capable of servicing it, the decision was made to retire the last flying Vulcan for good.
