BBC News in Manchester are reporting that plans are afoot to put a Vulcan bomber on permanent display in Manchester.

The proposal, says the report, has been submitted to build Avro Heritage Museum at the former BAE Systems manufacturing site at Woodford Aerodrome, on Chester Road, Stockport.

The famous site, which once designed and built the famous plane, was closed in 2011 by former owners BAE Systems and sold to Avro Heritage Limited.

The plane was designed in 1947 in response to the Cold War by Avro’s chief designer Roy Chadwick and first came into service five years later when it was first flown watched only by Avro employees and a small band of press.

It would carry nuclear missiles then a key part of Britain’s deterrent against the Soviet block.The plane last flew in service during the Falkland’s war in 1982 and was last seen in the skies in 2012 in a fly past to celebrate its sixtieth anniversary.

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