What other manufacturer's name was added to the Vulcan in 1963?

The Vulcan was born in the design offices of A.V. Roe and Company, better known as Avro, which designed it in response to the British Ministry of Supply's B.35/46 specification. However, halfway through its operational life it changed designation: from July 1963 it became the Hawker Siddeley Vulcan.

By then the aircraft had already been in service for years. The RAF had received its first Vulcan B.1 in September 1956, and deliveries of the much-improved Vulcan B.2 had begun in 1960; the last one reached the RAF in January 1965, already under the new designation. It was also the period in which the Vulcan lost the Skybolt missile, cancelled in November 1962, and in which the RAF began preparing the switch to low-level tactics, introduced in the mid-1960s.

In practice, the name change had little effect on popular memory. The aircraft had first flown on 30 August 1952 as the Avro 698, was unveiled at Farnborough as an Avro, and is almost always remembered as the Avro Vulcan. The RAF operated it from 1956 to 1984, when 50 Squadron retired its last examples, and XH558, which later flew air displays as a civilian aircraft until 2015, kept that identity alive among enthusiasts.

Its only combat action came in 1982, with Operation Black Buck in the Falklands War. After the type's retirement in 1984, XH558 was restored and flew air displays as a civilian aircraft, registered G-VLCN, until 2015.