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    Airframe Family: Vickers VC-10
    Latest Model:VC-10 C.1K
    Last Military Serial:XV109 RAF
    Construction Number:839
    Compressed ID:British Aircraft Corporation VC-10...
    Latest Owner or Location:South Wales Aviation Museum, Saint Athan Airport, Eglwys-Brewis, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a VC-10 C.1 by British Aircraft Corporation.

    18 July 1968

    First flight.

    1 August 1968

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XV109.

    By June 1982

    Transferred to 10SQN, RAF Brize Norton.
    Operated with markings: Arthur Scarf VC, 109

    12 June 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Brize Norton Airshow

    8 July 1984


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Middle Wallop Airshow

    28 May 1988


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: VC-10 C.1K of 10 Squadron on a flypast at the 1988 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete.

    28 May 1988


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: VC-10 C.1 of 10 Squadron was present at the 1988 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete.

    20 July 1996


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: VC-10 C.1K air-refuelling tanker of 10 Squadron at RAF Brize Norton on display at the 1996 Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

    Converted to a VC-10 C.1K by British Aircraft Corporation.

    13 July 2008


    Photographer: Simon Wallwork
    Notes: 101 Squadron operated this VC-10 C.1K, XV109/ Z, seen here at Brize Norton. It was scrapped at Bruntingthorpe - but the nose lives on somewhere.

    6 April 2010

    Last flight.
    Into Bruntingthorpe.

    June 2010

    Scrapped.
    At Bruntingthorpe, cockpit preserved.

    To South Wales Aviation Museum, Saint Athan Airport, Eglwys-Brewis, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.
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     South Wales Aviation Group
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
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     Robert Nichols
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