The aircraft will roll out of its hangar for the first time in seven years

Earlier this year, aviation enthusiasts raised more than �1.2m to return the Vulcan bomber to the skies.

But now the fund-raisers want a backer to help with its first flight in June to mark the 25th anniversary of the Falklands War.

A team of engineers at Bruntingthorpe in Leicestershire have spent nine years restoring the last Vulcan.

'Brilliant example'

"We are seeking a commercial sponsor who will support the project and its broader educational aims of taking her around the UK," project manager Robert Pleming, of the Vulcan Operating Company, said.

"The aircraft will be seen by several million of people around the UK every year and is a brilliant example of what we can achieve in British engineering."

A �500,000 donation in August from millionaire football club owner Sir Jack Hayward helped keep the project on track.

There are more than a dozen remaining Vulcans, which were retired from service in 1984, but the Bruntingthorpe plane is the only one with a realistic chance of flying again.