5Y-ADA Vickers Super VC-10-1154 East African Airways MAN 24OCT75

            Replacing an earlier scanned slide with a better version 02-Dec-15.

A beautiful day at Manchester probably meant fog at London-Heathrow and another diversion!

Just 3 aircraft from the end of VC-10 production, this Super VC-10 was delivered to East African Airways Corporation in Mar-67 as 5Y-ADA.

Ten years later, in Jan-77, East African ceased operations and the aircraft was stored at Nairobi, Kenya.  It was repossessed by BAC, the British Aircraft Corporation in Jun-77, flown to Bristol-Filton and stored.

In Sep-78 it was sold to the UK Royal Air Force, The aircraft, serialled ZA148, coded 'G', was converted to a VC-10 K.3 tanker/transport and was completed in Jul-84 and delivered to the RAF the following month.

It served with the RAF for a further 29 years until it was retired in Aug-13 and flown to Newquay, UK, for preservation.

Taken on: October 24, 1975

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