An American Air Force bomber plane has been spotted flying over parts of Wales. The Boeing B-52 was tracked in the skies above Welshpool, Mold and Flint among other locations on Tuesday April 19.
Departing from RAF Fairford, The United States Air Force bomber, with registration 61-0018 had previously completed flights to the south of France, Budapest and the coast of Sardinia, according to data from ADS-B Exchange, a flight tracking website.
The last available data for the B-52 was when it was traveling over the Atlantic Ocean west of Scotland at an altitude of 28,000ft.The most recent of several B-52 aircraft to fly over the UK in recent months, the bomber could be one of the four stationed at RAF Fairford as part of the Bomber Task Force mission.
