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    Airframe Family: Vickers VC-10
    Latest Model:VC-10-1101
    Construction Number:815
    Last Civil Registration:G-ARVM
    Compressed ID:British Aircraft Corporation VC-10-...
    Latest Owner or Location:Brooklands Museum, Brooklands Airport (formerly), Weybridge, Surrey, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a VC-10-1101 by British Aircraft Corporation.

    To unknown owner with c/r G-ARVM.

    6 July 1964

    First flight.

    22 July 1964

    To BOAC keeping c/r G-ARVM.

    1 April 1972

    To British Airways keeping c/r G-ARVM.

    22 October 1978

    Withdrawn from use.
    Put into storage at Cosford.

    To Brooklands Museum, Brooklands Airport (formerly), Weybridge, Surrey, England.
    Only the forward fuselage survives with the museum.
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    10 August 1996


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: At the RAF-Museum Cosford, UK

    10 August 1996


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost

    2007


    Photographer: Andy West

    9 November 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo - still at Brooklands Museum - but now in a different location - Google Maps - 51 21 18.68 N 00 27 50.43 W
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     European Military Out of Service 2007 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     A Little VC10derness
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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