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    Airframe Family: Vickers VC-10
    Latest Model:VC-10 C.1K
    Last Military Serial:XR807 RAF
    Construction Number:827
    Compressed ID:British Aircraft Corporation VC-10...
    Latest Owner or Location:10 SQN, RAF Brize Norton

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    Dates

    Event

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

    25 March 1966

    First flight.

    17 November 1966

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XR807.

    By June 1983

    Transferred to 10 SQN, RAF Brize Norton.
    Operated with markings: 807

    18 June 1983


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Brize Norton Air Show

    27 May 1995


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: VC-10 C.1K of 10 Squadron based at RAF Brize Norton on display at the 1995 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete.

    27 May 1995


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Another view of the 10 Squadron VC-10 C.1K from RAF Brize Norton on display at the 1995 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete.

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

    6 April 2010

    Last flight.
    To GJD Services, Bruntingthorpe for spares recovery.

    28 July 2010

    Scrapped.
    At Bruntingthorpe.
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