The Royal Air Force Hercules aircraft is set to fly past Buckinghamshire today for the last time ever.
Eagle-eyed residents could spot the Hercules on the skies today as it flies across the UK.
The flypast is a goodbye to the tactical transport aircraft Hercules C-130J that has been in service since 1966 before its retirement.
The Herculean flypast visits all four nations of the UK in just seven hours today Wednesday June 14, including RAF Brize Norton and RAF High Wycombe.
The aircraft is set to arrive to RAF High Wycombe at 4.55pm before the final stop at Brize Norton.
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Here are all the times when to spot the aircraft described by the RAF as the “backbone of UK operational tactical mobility tasks.”
- 10:00-Depart RAF Brize Norton
- 10:25-National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas
- 10:34-RAF Cosford
- 11:22- RAF Valley
- 11:48- FS Aldergrove
- 12:51-RAF Lossiemouth (with Typhoon escort)
- 14:08 -RAF Leeming
- 14:10 -RAF Topcliffe
- 14:23- Beverley
- 14:35 -RAF Waddington
- 14:38 -RAF College Cranwell
- 14:58 -Cambridge Airport
- 15:04 -RAF Mildenhall
- 15:15 -Colchester Garrison
- 16:22 -MOD Boscombe Down
- 16:25-Salisbury Plain (West Down Camp)
- 16:32- MOD Lyneham
- 16:36 -Royal Wootton Bassett
- 16:39-Defence Academy of the UK, Shrivenham
- 16:43 -Dalton Barracks, Abingdon
- 16:51- RAF Halton
- 16:55 - RAF High Wycombe
- 17:05 -RAF Brize Norton
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