Hundreds gather in Sealand for stunning RAF Tornado final farewell

Three Tornado GR4 planes are making a series of ceremonial flypasts across a number of sites in the UK today and tomorrow.

The aircraft performed a flypast above the DECA base at Sealand this afternoon after arriving from RAF Shawbury. 

Video by Joe Robinson 

Tornado jets above Deeside. Picture: Geoff Abbott

It was then heading onto RAF Valley in Anglesey.

The flypast has caught the imagination of aviation enthusiasts, with scores of cars parked on both roads adjacent to the A494 in Sealand.

The RAF confirmed earlier this month that after almost 40 years serving the UK on military operations across the world, its Tornado jets are returning home for the last time.

Aviation fans gather on A494 bridge in Deeside for best shot. Picture: Geoff Abbott

First entering service in 1979, the fast jets have been used in operations across the world, most recently bombarding Daesh to push the terrorist group back through Syria and Iraq.

The Tornado jets are captured in the sky above Flintshire

Aircraft enthusiast David Agnew-White from Bebington​

Carl Heitman and Arran Clancy, 14, from Saughall, on the Chester Millennium Greenway Bridge

Staff from Betts Associates whose office is next to RAF Sealand (and was bombed during World War Two)

Crowds gather, above and below, to catch a perfect shot of the Tornado jets