A WORCESTERSHIRE town will be able to see today's RAF Hercules Retirement flypast.

According to a map on military-airshows.co.uk, Tenbury Wells will have the flypast overhead as it makes its way towards Hereford between 10.34am and 10.35am.

The flypast is set to mark the forthcoming retirement of the Hercules from RAF services and the planes will be flying all across the UK.

Three aircrafts will be flying over RAF Cosford near Wolverhampton at 10.34am as part of the flypast.

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Cosford is just over an hour's drive away from Worcester City centre depending on traffic and totals just over 50 miles.

The flypast will depart from RAF Brize Norton at 10am, which is a one hour and 22-minute drive from Worcester depending on traffic.

Then it will make its way to National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas which is about a one hour and 20-minute drive away from Worcester.

The plane will arrive at Cosford at 10.34 before heading toward RAF Valley in Holyhead.

RAF Hercules farewell flypast route and timings

  • 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

The entire route will take about seven hours to complete.

The first Hercules arrived at Marshall's of Cambridge in the 1960s and since entering RAF service, it has operated across the globe and supports the UK in military and humanitarian relief operations. 

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Described by the RAF as the "backbone of UK operational tactical mobility tasks", Hercules's defensive system makes it ideal for operating in regions where there is a threat to aircraft. 

However, Hercules is officially set to retire on June 30