Restored and re-painted RAF aircraft to go on display in Yorkshire

A newly re-painted RAF aircraft is going back on display at the Yorkshire Air Museum.

The Blackburn Buccaneer, which was built and tested in Yorkshire in 1964, has been given back its original livery.

The aircraft has been at the museum in Elvington since it flew into retirement in 1991.

It first flew on 5th June 1964, from Holme-on-Spalding Moor, York, and then went to the Royal Aircraft Experimental test facility in Bedford and then to HMS Eagle for sea trials, including work on HMS Hermes and HMS Ark Royal.

In 1965 in went to the USA for hot weather testing and, on its return flight, became a record breaker by becoming the first Fleet Air Arm aircraft to fly the transatlantic route non-stop and un-refuelled from Goose Green to Lossiemouth.