Xh558 was the last vulcan to leave raf service flying on from 1986 to 1993 as the single raf disply vulcan a career of three years her final flight was on 23rd march 1993 to bruntingthorpe aerodrome in leicestershire having been sold off by the ministry of defence in 1997 a small team headed by dr robert pleming started to put together an audacious plan to return her to flight but it was clear from the start that the project would be technically challenging and enormously expensive never