A mate of mine, one Roy Jacobsen, bought Vulcans XM655 and XM558 off the RAF about 15 years ago for around £7,000 each. Shedloads of spares were thrown in for nothing!! Both were flown in, one to Wellesbourne Mountford, one to Southend, so they were fully airworthy then.
He then proceeded to fight the CAA for about 10 years, bashing his head against a brick wall and eventually - and who can blame him - gave up the good fight to preserve his sanity. Rather than spend the rest of his life in a rubber room, he sold the aeroplanes, for nothing like what he paid for them.
He is delighted that somebody else took up the fight and will, hopefully, get this wonderful aeroplane back in the sky where it belongs.
I saw one at Biggin about 10 years ago. It came howling down the runway at 200 feet, pulled up and POURED the power on. The ground shook and 50,000 car alarms went off in the car park!!!!! Brilliant!