📷 Photo by Neil Owen · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Bristol Britannia XM496, named Regulus, is a preserved Bristol Type 175 Britannia parked at Cotswold Airport near Kemble.
She was built as an RAF C.Mk1 transport and flew with 99 and 511 Squadrons, first from RAF Lyneham and later from Brize Norton, until she was withdrawn from service in 1975 as part of defence cuts. XM496 was the very last Britannia to fly.
The aircraft can no longer fly. She is looked after entirely by the volunteers of the Bristol Britannia XM496 Preservation Society, a not-for-profit group, who have restored her. Cotswold Airport is a working airfield, so this is not somewhere to turn up on spec: the aircraft is open to visitors on the society's public open days, which are listed on its website. Check the next date before you travel.
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N. Owen · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
N. Owen · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons