page_title: Vickers VC10
section_title: Aircraft on display
hierarchical_section_title: Vickers VC10 / Aircraft on display
caption_attribution_description: English: Vickers Super VC10 G-ASGC in classic BOAC Cunard color scheme. Picture taken on October 11th 2010 at the Imperial War Museum Duxford.
context_page_description: The Vickers VC10 is a mid-sized, narrow-body long-range British jet airliner designed and built by Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd and first flown at Brooklands, Surrey, in 1962. The airliner was designed to operate on long-distance routes from the shorter runways of the era and commanded excellent hot and high performance for operations from African airports. The performance of the VC10 was such that it had achieved the fastest crossing of the Atlantic by a subsonic jet airliner of 5 hours and 1 minute, a record that was held for 41 years, until February 2020 where a British Airways Boeing 747 broke the record at 4 hours 56 minutes due to Storm Ciara. Only the supersonic Concorde was faster. The VC10 is often compared to the larger Soviet Ilyushin Il-62, the two types being the only airliners to use a rear-engined quad layout; the smaller business jet Lockheed JetStar also has this engine arrangement.
  Although only a relatively small number of VC10s were built, they provided long service with BOAC and other airlines from the 1960s to 1981.
context_section_description: Type 1101 (registration G-ARVF) is on display in United Arab Emirates government colours at the Flugausstellung Hermeskeil at Hermeskeil, Germany.
  Type 1101 (registration G-ARVM) (fuselage only with a comprehensive VC10 Exhibition housed in the rear cabin) at Brooklands Museum, Surrey, England.
  Type 1103 (registration A4O-AB, formerly G-ASIX), originally owned by British United Airways before being sold to British Caledonian, it was later sold to the Omani government where it was used from 1974–1987 by the Sultan of Oman as his personal jet. On display in Omani Royal Flight colours at the Brooklands Museum, Surrey, England.
  Type 1151 (registration G-ASGC) is on display in BOAC-Cunard colours at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England.
  Type 1180 C1K XR808 "Bob" is on display outside at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford.
  Type 1180 C1K XV106 (forward fuselage) on public display at Avro Heritage Museum, Woodford.
  Type 1180 C1K XV108 (forward fuselage) on public display at East Midlands Aeropark.
  Type 1164 K3 ZA147 c/n 882 formerly East African Airways Type 1154 5H-MMT, delivered to Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome in Leicestershire on 25 September 2013. Now owned by GJD Services, it is likely that this aircraft will be used as spares to help the preservation of ZD241.
  Type 1164 K3 ZA148 c/n 883 formerly with East African Airways Type 1154 5Y-ADA, delivered to the Classic Air Force collection at Newquay, Cornwall, 28 August 2013.
  Type 1164 K3 ZA149 c/n 884 formerly with East African Airways Type 1154 5X-UVJ (forward fuselage), on display at Al Mahatta museum, Sharjah, in Gulf Air colourscheme.
  Type 1164 K3 ZA150 c/n 885 formerly with East African Airways Type 1154 5H-MOG (and the last VC10 built) was delivered to Dunsfold Park, Surrey on 24 September 2013 where it is preserved in taxiable condition by Brooklands Museum.
  Type 1170 K4 ZD241 c/n 863 formerly BOAC/BA Type 1151 G-ASGM. Now owned by GJD Services and preserved in ground running condition at Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome.
caption: Super VC10 G-ASGC at Imperial War Museum Duxford
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