Dates

Event

Constructed as a VC-10-1151 by British Aircraft Corporation.

26 February 1968

First flight.

From 9 April 1968 to 1 April 1974

To British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) with new c/r G-ASGM.

From 1 April 1974 to 27 April 1981

To British Airways keeping c/r G-ASGM.

Photographer: EX/ZX Collection
Notes: At London Heathrow

27 April 1981

Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n ZD241.
Put into storage at RAF Abingdon pending modernisation to an air refueling aircraft.

Circa 1993

Remanufactured as a VC-10 K.4 by British Aircraft Corporation.
At British Aerospace, Filton, Bristol.

10 May 1995

First flight.
Post remanufacturing to a VC.10 K4.

9 June 1995

Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n ZD241.

By 22 July 1995

Transferred to 101 SQN, RAF Brize Norton.
Noted at RAF Fairford RIAT.

By 22 July 1995

Markings Applied: N

22 July 1995

Photographer: Peter Nicholson
Notes: VC-10 K.4, callsign Ascot 865, of 101 Squadron at RAF Brize Norton on display at the 1995 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford. Gloucestershire.

21 March 2013

To Bruntingthorpe.
Preserved in ground running condition.

To GD Services with new c/r N241ZD.
For Kepler Aerospace.

23 June 2019

Photographer: Clive Hindmarch
Notes: ZD241 - a VC-10 WFU at Bruntingthorpe on Sunday 23rd June 2019

28 January 2022

To Aerovision Llc, West Palm Beach, FL keeping c/r N241ZD.