The last Vickers VC10 built in the UK is flown to a Surrey airfield after being withdrawn from service with the RAF.

The VC10 was built as a commercial airliner but has been the mainstay of the RAF's air-to-air refuelling fleet. It has also been used to deploy troops around the world.

The front section of a Vickers VC10, fondly nicknamed 'The Queen of the Skies', recently arrived from the UK by ship before being driven from Khor Fakkan to Sharjah Al Mahatta Aviation Museum.

Access provider Rapid Platforms has assisted in the preservation of a Vickers VC10 aircraft at the Imperial War Museum’s (IWM) Duxford site in the United Kingdom (UK). The company was called in to ...

He said: "I remember the lovely Vickers VC10 aircraft that was working in Shannon, it used to train here. "The aircraft is actually here, and it's also on my hand." ...

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The two aircraft took off from RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, at 10:00 BST and refuelled several planes air-to-air before landing at about 14:30. They are to be dismantled and replaced by a fleet ...